Lagoon and the Trifid Nebula capture last weekend at Ten Chain Hill West of Brisbane.
13 x 5min subs at 1600 ISO.
Equipment as per my signature line.
Processed in Pixinsight and PS.
It seems a very busy starfield to me, lots of small seemingly yellow stars, I thought some of them might have been artefacts of capture or processing but looking at other Lagoon nebula pics maybe not?
Nice capture & Field Brett, the details in them Nebs is very sharp, nice work ! No Critique, tho, if you can saturates the star color, that would be a benificial next learning move
Pretty amazing image for the "beginners" forum! Perhaps the background is a little dark - the image looks "clipped" to me. Otherwise it's superb - the sharpness is incredible.
This is my first image with my new ST80 guidescope and QHY5Lii guide camera. The month before I used a borrowed guidescope and cam and the month before that I was just doing unguided stuff so I am progressing.
I am happy how they are turning out given I am such a newbie.
I am just focusing on a star using the live view on the back on my dslr. This has the advantage of being within reach of the scope focus knob as I don't have an electric focuser. It seems to be working for now but could be as much good luck as good management.
I am making some headway with pixinsight and can do the basic batch preprocessing steps now and integration.
thanks for your encouraging comments
Astronobob, not sure what you mean about the saturation?
Great image Brett, I really like the way you have made the nebula the heros here. In some images of this area the nebula is overwhelmed by the stars. Good job.
