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03-08-2008, 10:00 PM
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Lagoon Nebula 90 mins
Heres the Lagoon nebula 90 mins total
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03-08-2008, 11:35 PM
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Excellent work Scott. Nice tight stars. Dynamic range maybe a little suppressed but really light the detail in the highlights. Well done.
03-08-2008, 11:59 PM
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Very spectacular Scott, lovely detail and depth in this image.
04-08-2008, 02:00 AM
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That's what I want to do Scott, thanks for the inspiration!
04-08-2008, 02:08 AM
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Wow, great work!
04-08-2008, 04:10 AM
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Nice. Maybe a little too much yellow IMHO in the colour balance, but very well executed.
Superb focus and guiding, and while M8 is bright, you've not wimped out and given shallow exposure depth with the DSLR, hence given it real structure and suppressed any noise
Well done. Keep it up !
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04-08-2008, 06:31 AM
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Nice one Scott.
04-08-2008, 06:41 AM
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Beautiful image, Scott.
04-08-2008, 10:21 AM
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Excellent image Scott.
04-08-2008, 01:20 PM
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Thanks for the input all
Though Ive imaged this plenty of times in the past, I really did want to try and get a nice deep image, on a night with no wind to buffet the scope and reasonably good seeing.
I think Id rate only M42 as a more difficult object to image in its entirety, that is to show detail in the brightest, and faintest parts.
The OAG was using one of the stars in the nearby Triffid Nebula as a guidestar.
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04-08-2008, 01:25 PM
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looks nice mate...
a bit too red in the highlights for my liking, but tracking, exposure and composition are all great... Well done.
dont mind me throwing up my little bit of tinkering....
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04-08-2008, 02:29 PM
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Wonderful shot Scott !
04-08-2008, 02:29 PM
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Looks great Scott !
04-08-2008, 03:51 PM
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Very, very nice.
04-08-2008, 04:40 PM
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Very sharp focus. Nice detail in the dark clouds.
04-08-2008, 04:51 PM
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Great image, looks much better than my effort on Lagoon last night. Any darks?
04-08-2008, 05:34 PM
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Fantastic shot Scott. Could almost dive in for a swim. Well Done.
04-08-2008, 05:49 PM
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Thanks again everyone. Good work AlexN, I will have another tinker myself, your version has pleasing colour balance
04-08-2008, 06:03 PM
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An excellent Lagoon. Well done.
04-08-2008, 06:42 PM
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Thats a great photo ... no doubt about it.
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