Lagoon Nebula

baileys2611 (Simon Bailey) · #1 07-05-2013, 09:11 AM

Lagoon Nebula, 6 shots of 5 minutes, no guiding on a Paramount MX with QHY8 through a C9.25 XLT. Taken with Nebulosity, stacked in MaximDL, post processing with Photoshop.

Higher resolution is at http://www.flickr.com/photos/skyslab...n/photostream/

IanP · #2 07-05-2013, 10:52 AM

I think the focus is not 100% correct. As far as astrophotography goes, C9.25 is terrible without proper “feather-touch” focuser, that gives you 10 extra turns per one original turn.

Anyhow, good try !!!

baileys2611 (Simon Bailey) · #3 07-05-2013, 01:22 PM

Ah, excellent - thank you for the comment.

I'm slowly getting there with this and it's great to know what to look at for improvement.

Ross G · #4 08-05-2013, 08:07 AM

A nice looking closeup Simon.

Ross.

multiweb (Marc) · #5 08-05-2013, 08:47 AM

Excellent close-up. Great tracking at that FL.

jase (Jason) · #6 08-05-2013, 10:38 AM

You should be stoked by this result Simon. As far as an SCT image goes, its a ripper. The PMX no doubt has significantly influenced the outcome with nice round stars especially given the focal length you're operating at. Only 30mins of data too. Well done.