After many goes at M8/M20 in the past, thought it was time to try and do justice to the regions at the tip of M8 (IC 1274, IC 1275, IC 4685, NGC 6559, etc).
This is LRGB collected over a few darks nights from regional SE Qld. First serious outing of NINA in the field and it performed very nicely, even around a couple of frustrating hardware issues.
5min subs, LRGB 75:115:85:110 mins, for a total integration time around 6.5 hours.
(FSQ106ED/HEQ5Pro/QHY9)
Playing around with the data in PI its fascinating just how much dust winds its way through this area. Messing about with contrast and scale settings you can see there are "pools" of massive dark clouds, all the way down to finer tendrils here and there. Will leave to the creative types to spot animals etc in the dust lanes.
Larger (zoomable) JPG also available
here.
Thanks for looking.