m8 the Lagoon nebula

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Comment by Trevor Woodrow on June 5, 2011 at 10:50pm

Brighter....some more alpha h showing up...more natural looking, Well done Steve.

Comment by Steve Coates on June 5, 2011 at 4:49pm

Here is a reprocess with 2 hours and 7 minutes added to the stack for a total of 4 hours and 21 min:

Comment by Steve Coates on May 31, 2011 at 11:43am

No doubt Marc. I'm kicking myself not having this done earlier.

Comment by Marc Basti on May 31, 2011 at 2:49am

Nice job Steve. You must have flipped when you saw all that red (I know I did)-hey this camera really is modified. Cool looking pic, Marc

Comment by Philip A Cruden on May 30, 2011 at 8:22pm

Wow Steve, really great capture, either way the other two (Monkeys LOL, love yah both) work it out it is beyond beautiful, AMAZING

Comment by Trevor Woodrow on May 30, 2011 at 5:29pm

Do it Byland!

Comment by Steve Coates on May 30, 2011 at 4:43pm

Thanks Trevor. I use an Astro-Tech field flattener which works really well given the sensor size on the T1i. I still get some star elongation in the corners. M8 took up about 1/3rd of the sensor so I cropped to taste...my next go at this I hope to include M20 in the FOV.

Comment by Trevor Woodrow on May 30, 2011 at 4:04pm

Beautiful! How did you avoid elongation at the edge of field? Did you use a flattener?