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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Hi Paul
That is a lovely image!
If I could give some constructive critisim...? I would say the nebula and background perhaps looks just a little monochromatically red...? with somewhat "all white" stars? The bright area around the lagoon stripe needs to blend in with the surroundings just a little more, at the moment this area looks too bold to me. There is some OIII emission in this bright area too so I recon some vague green should be present in there as well (as it is in Scott's image). There is also some subtle blue reflection nebulosity permeating the foreground of M8 in patches that isn't showcased in your image either, nor many other images of M8, for that matter!
But these rather minor points aside, it is still fine as is and is a very pleasing image allround, very well done and thanks for sharing!
BTW, who hand guides these days your a bloody trooper Mate! 
Mike Sid on IO |
Hi Mike,
nice to make your virtual acquaintence
Your right about the reddish background stars, I fiddled for some time to try and remove that look but couldnt. But in the back of mind I know this was only a quick session with the Lagoon Nebula and that more signal is required than just the 14-minutes worth that I did to get this image. With more signal (more exposure time) I think that I won't need to push the image so much and that should save the stars from buring out and becoming white.
With a little more green in the image I created a new post today of this image which is comparable to that image done with the 32" RCOS 'scope (see
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ead.php?t=9965).
Who Hand Guides these days?
Poor people like me!
Believe it or not I enjoy hand-guiding I couldn't imagine it any other way (of course I've never done it any other way so how would I know?
). Though it does give me the fuzzy feeling that the image depended soley on me, without me the image would have been a squiggle!
thanks again for your comments.
Best regards
Paul Mayo