M8 Lagoon Nebula

I had a go at the Lagoon nebula also, it is probably best next to the Orion or Eta Carina nebula, it's another great summer object to view. This is a stack of 13 shots in all, 9x60sec ISO 800, 4x2min ISO 400 through the C80ED, unguided again.
Hope you like it !
Keith..

Hope you like it !

I do!
But there appears to be alot of nebulosity in the entire frame. Is this noise Keith?

When you say unguided do you mean you were tracking it manualy with the slow motion controls.

Nice Keith. I think the lagoon nebulosity coers a fair old chunk of sky so maybe that's what Seanie is seeing. But I'm not certain...

What's your current maximum exposure? This would be great one for a stack of 10 minute images...

Cheers

Dave

Great image Keith, almost competes with Slooh's Lagoon



:lol:

But there appears to be alot of nebulosity in the entire frame. Is this noise Keith?

Seanie, as You can see from the slooth image, this nebula is very big , but there's a bit of noise there too, also there's a lot of milkyway to the bottom left too
[/quote]When you say unguided do you mean you were tracking it manualy with the slow motion controls.

Pioneer, no tracking at all, I have the goto mount which is motorised, but I spent a lot of time polar aligning and calibrating the mount - about 30 mins, so my tracking was good, I could get up to 3 minutes unguided

What's your current maximum exposure?

Dave, I found 3 minutes last night to be the max, pity I don't have an autoguiding set up - just yet

almost competes with Slooh's Lagoon

Thanks Marty, But I do think slooth has just a slightly bigger budget then I do

Keith..