M8 - Heathcote, Victoria.

[stevous67 (Steve M)]

Hi guys,

Just returned from a great couple days away at the ASV dark Sky site - it was great, albeit being a little chilly down to -1.5c [not use to that].

Captured numerous objects, the first processed being M8. Done with HaRGB I used the colour channels from the FSQ+QHY9 [from a wide field of the area, RGB 5min subs x4 each channel, Bin 2x2], and the Ha from the CDK+STL-11000 [160mins, with 20min subs, Bin 1x1].

So, here is the full frame at 57% size [about 2mb]:

M8

I had troubles matching the colour channel’s star sizes to the Ha [tried PS minimum filter with some luck], so they are showing some dark rings which are not from any deconvolution, just the stars from the colour layer being larger than the Ha stars [which is normal I suppose].

for looking,


Steve

[Moon (James)]

[multiweb (Marc)]

Ha! That's awesome Steve. World class mate.

[LightningNZ (Cam)]

Oh... that's pretty special! Very nice work sir, very nice.

Cheers,
Cam

[Nico13 (Ken)]

Hey Steve you gotta be happy with that, looks pretty special.

[alistairsam]

Holy &^%$, that is really cool. What was the FL?

[alpal]

That's a top photo Steve.
The stars are nice & sharp.
You must have had top seeing.