M8 Lagoon from A.S.I.G.N. Observatory

[bloodhound31]

G'day folks,
I have had a very good night here in the observatory with a dark sky, a new light pollution filter and a cool 5 degrees celcius in the dome.
Heres 44 minutes at ISO 800 on the Lagoon. Imaged with a Celestron Nexstar 11, focal reducer to F6.3. Guided manually with a ToUCam on a piggybacked ED80.
Cheers, Baz.

[Garyh]

Nice Bazz!!
What length subs did you use?
Looks like the seeing was real nice as well as the stars are nice and tight!
cheers

[Zuts]

Hi,

Nice image scale Barry. I stopped using my LP filter because of colour balance problems. Your colour balance looks good, which filter are you using?

Paul

[bloodhound31]

Thanks folks.

I was using an Un-modded 400D and the ALP filter screwed onto the T-adapter. Thats all.

I normally tend to over-saturate the levels in processing ,so this time I tried to keep the colours subtle and more natural looking.

The ALP filter made a huge difference to the duration of sub I can do. Normally the ambient light restricts me to 3 minute subs. Using the filter I got 5 minute subs and could probably go longer. I might have a go tonight.

[Ric]

Hi Baz, a very nice image. The colours and detail look great.

A fine effort with this one.

Cheers

[EzyStyles (Eric)]

nice shot Baz. must be freezing at 5 degrees!

[bloodhound31]

Not quite Eric, but it feels like it...brrrrrrrr

So much fun to go to bed at 3 in the morning and put my icy feet on my wife's legs....hehehehehehe

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