Nice report Darren, sounds like you had fun!
The Hourglass, a planetary nebula, is often burnt out in photos because of the relative brightness of that area of the Lagoon Nebula. Didn't check Bert's image, but here's a link to a fairly fuzzy image which nonetheless shows the Hourglass pretty well. It's down in the bottom right corner in the brightest bit. Right next to a star, you can see the tiny white 'hourglass' shape.
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/phys/...-Hourglass.jpg
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