Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Ophiuchus (Oph)  ·  Contains:  Hourglass nebula  ·  IC 4592  ·  IC 4601  ·  IC 4603  ·  IC 4604  ·  IC 4605  ·  Lagoon nebula  ·  M 20  ·  M 23  ·  M 4  ·  M 8  ·  NGC 6121  ·  NGC 6357  ·  NGC 6383  ·  NGC 6494  ·  NGC 6514  ·  NGC 6523  ·  NGC 6526  ·  Part of the constellation Sagittarius (Sgr)  ·  Part of the constellation Scorpius (Sco)  ·  The star Al Niyat (σSco)  ·  The star Alnasl (γ2Sgr)  ·  The star Antares (αSco)  ·  The star Media (δSgr)  ·  The star εSco  ·  The star θOph  ·  The star μSgr  ·  The star νSco  ·  The star τSco  ·  The star ω1Sco  ·  And 2 more.
Lagoon to Antares, Dave Erickson
Lagoon to Antares
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Lagoon to Antares

Lagoon to Antares, Dave Erickson
Lagoon to Antares
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Lagoon to Antares

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4-Panel Mosaic taken last night, 20180708. This would have included 4 additional panels had the clouds not interfered.

No Flats, No Darks, No Bias frames just the average of undithered lights. It doesn't get much more raw than this. Just the following PI processes, deBayer, background neutralization, color calibration, ,Star align mosaic with frame adaptation, and Histogram screen stretch...

ZWO ASI 094 camera and Sigma Art 85mm F/1.4 at F/2.

System needs to be optemized, my mechanical support of camera and lens is not optimal and mosaic was phased to overcome the resulting lens flop image tilt misalignment.

This is one of several first light images using a ZWO ASI 094 color camera.

Thanks to OPT and ZWO for the support!!!

Thanks also to Roberto Colombari for suggesting CMOS cameras...

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