M8 - Lagoon Nebula - From Linden
Seeing from Linden Observatory in the Blue Mountains was fantastic this Saturday (15th Sep 07), the best we at WSAAG have had in the past 6 months (my opinion).
The following M8 is 30 x 1 minute subs @ ISO 1600, 10 darks & offsets, no guiding (can't get a decent guidestar despite my recent investment in an f5 Skywatcher 80mm short tube refractor). Will need to invest in a Meade DSI as my Logitech Quickcam 5000 can only pick objects that are extremely bright (Sirius, Moon, Venus).
I've pretty much overprocessed this image as the noise was very high. Really need a decent guidecam so I can do longer exposures at lower ISO (400 - 800). Overall though I resonably happy with this image.
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