[Alchemy (Clive)]

Shot a little while back.... ive reprocessed it several times before submitting it, im learning not to just accept the first try.

As per the M8 image i took getting the color balance right was interesting, i believe this is a pretty close effort.

I was suprised to see some faint reflection nebulosity surrounding the nebula, not what i had expected but it is around M8 and the running chicken nebula and others so i am content to leave it as it is. The whole of the area has some form of nebulosity around it (added a Ha shot of the region to show how much)

This was shot with the 12 inch F5 newt,qhy8 gain 50 and offset 117, and is the result of best 30 of 37 separate 6 min frames. plus the usual calibration files.

First image is the whole frame, second is a crop at 50% the last is a 4x4 binned Ha (posted previously just here for the comparison of nebulosity)

for those with a critical eye the stars are not perfectly round ...but close.