The Great Foot of Sagittarius

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

The Great Foot of Sagittarius. (if I keep calling it that it might catch on LOL )
M8, the Lagoon Nebula is at the heel and IC 4685 is the pink stuff at the "toes".
The total exposure time for this image is 2hr and 14min.
But...the individual subs were just 40 seconds long. (I wasn't guiding and thats as long as I could go before the stars would start trailing)
Camera - CDS1100D Scope - FS78 with focal reducer.

Higher res image here. https://www.flickr.com/photos/astro_...ream/lightbox/

I also uploaded to my photostream a few other wide fields taken recently if you care to peruse.

[h0ughy (David)]

ripper effort there - big kick up the butt for the rest of us to catch up

[DavidU (Dave)]

[RickS (Rick)]

That's a great result, JJJ, especially for such short subs. Who needs guiding?

Cheers,
Rick.

[gregbradley]

Very nice Nettie.

Greg.

[RB (Andrew)]

Nice jjj.

[E_ri_k (Erik)]

Nice one does look like a foot
Erik

[Shiraz (Ray)]

gosh that's good - nice one.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

I've always thought it looked like a foot too

Nice work

Mike

[andyc (Andy)]

That's a lovely shot, very impressive for 40s subs too. I like the "Great Foot" concept, and have promoted it in my (less deep) image of the same area, duly attributed to you!

[graham.hobart (Graham stevens)]

Very excellent JJJ!
Can't put a foot wrong!
Graz

[Paul Haese]

40 second subs. Good colour and expansive view. Well done.

[Peter Ward]

I'm amazed.

A remarkable image given such short sub-exposures.

Well done

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Awesome shot!

[Octane (Humayun)]

Wow, amazing for such short integration time! :O

H

[atalas]

Very nice JJJ...amongst your best work.