Lagoon neb

[Remus (Tom)]

hey all.

here's a new piccy of the lagoon nebula i took the other night. not sure if the focus was spot on but i really enjoyed taking this one since it was the first time i'd seen it!

any comments would be very much appreciated

thanks for looking

tom

http://www.flickr.com/photos/50323462@N02/4621378186/

[renormalised (Carl)]

Not bad at all Good shot....looks in focus to me. Colours look good too

Only problem you have is some coma on the edges and the tracking might be bit out.

[TrevorW]

good effort well done

[MrB (Simon)]

Good stuff Tom, colours look good.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Real nice shot Tom. Colors are spot on and focus/guiding very good too. As Carl mentioned earlier you should correct your field whith some kind of field flattener and you'll be cooking 100%. Very well done.

[Remus (Tom)]

renormalised: Thanks indeed the edges are quite messy and i think i might have accidently slightly bumped the camera bulb cable woops (yep, still doing manual timed exposures here on the ol' 30D lol).

TrevorW: Thanks a lot

MrB: Thank you

multiweb: Cheers and thank you for the advice on a flattener

I've been looking into flatteners.. I'm still really confused what will actually work on my 110mm refractor. I guess there's only one way to find out. I've read about the WO ones, seems like just the ticket i think..

again a big thanks for looking and advice.. the list of equipment needed never stops!! I guess that's half the allure of this hobby

[rogerg (Roger)]

looks good and most importantly enjoyed taking the photo Main thing to improve on is the coma/distorted stars around the edge, as other have said, and you could just crop it more to hide them If you get a WO flatenner do a lot of research - my WO FFv3 doesn't work perfectly with my Megrez 90 APO

[gregbradley]

Good image. The lagoon has a nice semi transparent look to it and colours are good.

Greg.

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Sharp, bright, and dark at the same time. Top work