Some pics taken through a SW 120ED this week

[5ash (Philip)]

Have been experimenting with exposures now guiding is working well .All pics through unmodified canon 60D. The first is the dumbell nebula cropped from a 31x 3min stack @ iso 800 , second is The lagoon nebula 6x10 min @iso 400 and the last The Triffid nebula 24x5min @iso 800.
philip

[DavidU (Dave)]

Impressive, well done.

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Good work!

[5ash (Philip)]

Thanks David and Larry for the encouragement
Regards philip

[h0ughy (David)]

they are pretty good, m27 looks a little less sharper than the others but maybe thats the processing and maybe because its a crop?

[5ash (Philip)]

The picture of the lagoon nebula was obtained by changing the raws to tiffs and stacking them in DSS. I have never done this before but found DSS would not stack the raws to give a useable image , the image was full of varied size black holes? Any ideas?
Regards philip

[raymo]

Nice images, and good guiding. I assume from your listed equipment
and number of posts that you are relatively experienced. I am therefore
hesitant to mention that it looks to me that your focus differs in the three images. The Lagoon looks pretty much spot on, but the Trifid seems
slightly out, and M27 more so. If I am wrong, please don't hesitate
to shoot me down in flames.
raymo

[5ash (Philip)]

I think that's because the triffid and Dumbell have been cropped to different extents.
Philip

[ourkind (Carlos)]

Very nice Philip the Lagoon looks excellent