[toryglen-boy (Duncan)]

Howdy

NGC 6357 sitting just at the end of the tail of the Scorpion. Taken with a Canon 1000D through an 200m F5 OTA on an EQ6, guided with an Orion SSAG through a Skywatcher 80 guidscope, over a course of 2 nights.

This is 40*10 mins subs, i have one with darks applied, but i liked this one better for some reason. Processed in CS4, Nebula has a rather bright core, and it was a choice as to wether to cook the core for more outer detail or not, in the end it got a bit singed, and it didnt help the fact that this was the redest object i have ever seen, but its still not a bad image, and i hope i am getting better.

thanks for looking.