NGC 6523 - The Lagoon

[monoxide]

heres one from lastnight.
had the UHC filter in for this one.
3 hours 40mins of data (22x 10min)


50% version (1.3mb)
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/1886/lagoon.jpg

100% full frame (3.1mb)
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/4250/lagoonbig.jpg

[Paul Haese]

Excellent image. Nice framing and perfect stars.

[desler]

Lovely detail and well presented, Nicely done!


Darren

[multiweb (Marc)]

Nice one Tj. Very clear and bright picture.

[monoxide]

thanks guys

[Lester]

Very nice image, you are on a roll, thanks for the view.

[TrevorW]

Nice image glad too see the QHY8 can produce such quality

[telecasterguru (Frank)]

Tj,

Fantastic image and with a UHC. What make of filter? I was going to use my Astronomic UHC this weekend on my 350D.

Frank

[monoxide]

hey Frank, i use a Baader UHC-S filter.
works really well on nebulae BUT kills star colours

[alan meehan (Alan)]

WOW you have done the lagoon proud this is one of my favorites good contrast and loverly detail well done.
ALAN

[Jen]

nice work Tj

[monoxide]

thanks Alan and Jen.

even though it gets imaged to death its still one of my favourites.
its just a beautiful nebula with the structures and the dust through it and im really happy with how the image turned out.

[zipdrive (Dave)]

very smooth and detailed, an excellent capture

[spearo (Frank)]

Lovely,
structures come out nicely
well done
frank

[monoxide]

thanks Dave and Frank

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Yes the Lagoon is imaged a lot but when done well, like here, it's a pleasure to look at

Mike

[gregbradley]

That's a lovely rendition of the Lagoon. You did everything well.

Greg.