M8 - Into the Blue Lagoon (John Dziuba)

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M8 - Into the Blue Lagoon

Revision title: HOO Version

M8 - Into the Blue Lagoon

Revision title: HOO Version

The Lagoon nebula shot with the FSQ85 from a Bortle 1 site at Mt Mulligan Australia. This is a crop of a larger image as the Tak 85 is only a 450mm scope.

Even though I can actually image this target from home, at my imaging site it passed directly overhead where at home it never climbs above 40 degrees so I would struggle to get as much detail from my humid Bortle 7 skies. Given the perfect conditions, I chose to spend some of my limited available time on this target. This is a crop of less than 25% of the total image which illustrates just how good this data was.

I tried to get away from a standard SHO pallet to really bring out the blues from the washed out center. It took very creative stretching and lots of trial and error. I still feel like I can do more with it but my skills need to catch up.

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Description: Reprocessed with a modified HOO pallet with a bit if Sii in the Red and Green channels. Then I applied a synthetic lum made of 50% Ha / 50% Sii.

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Takahashi Refractors

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RA (center)	18h03m50s.35
RA (top/left)	18h06m57s.97
RA (top/right)	18h01m31s.38
RA (bottom/right)	18h00m41s.72
RA (bottom/left)	18h06m10s.68

Dec (center)	-24°18′51″.6
Dec (top/left)	-23°57′35″.7
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Dec (bottom/right)	-24°39′52″.3
Dec (bottom/left)	-24°54′27″.3

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