Here's my 2nd attempt with the new Hutech 450D - this image done last night with my William Optics Megrez 110mm f/5.95 Refractor telescope on
Losmandy G-11 equatorial mount. Guiding Autoguided with SBIG 402 on Orion ST-80 f/5 guidescope with CCDOps.
Total Exposure time 75-minutes (15 x 5-minute exposures @ ISO 400).
Astronomik 2" CLS filter,
Baader 2" I/R Cut Filter,
Baader MP Coma Corrector.
Processing Darks, bias and flat-fielded with DeepSkyStacker, post processing in Photoshop.
Higher resolution image
http://www.skylab.com.au/pmsa/LagoonNebula_080530.html
The raw images tend to consume around 15-MBytes each, the final TIFF version of the image is just over 100-Megabytes (32-bit). I need a new computer
regards to all