Lagoon and NGC6559 in Sagittarius

[johnh]

SPX350 F4.5, ST10XME, Astrodon filters.

Weather is much better now in Brisbane so I can get some imaging done. Started with the bright Lagoon in Hubble palette and moved to its forgotten neighbour nearby NGC6559 which has a pronounced dust lane and a reflection nebula patch, the dust lane is Barnard 303.

Lagoon

Ha-16x2m

O3-12x5m

S2-10x10m

6559

Ha-21x5m

RGB-12x5m each.

ST10 bloom spikes are not present on a lot of narrowband images but are easy to remove from RGB.

Thanks, John.

[Mike Hawtin]

Nicely done John, I particularly like the Lagoon rendition, very striking.

Mike

[Mark72]

Indeed, M8 is wonderful.

Mark

[x6gas]

Oh come on - that's not fair!

You shouldn't be allowed to pair Australian weather, southern skies, astrodon filters, and capture and processing skills. Doesn't give the rest of us a chance!

Seriously though, these are both beautiful images and very tastefully processed. Love the colours in the Lagoon...

[Shibby]

Lovely stuff. You've got away with remarkably short exposure times for that fantastic Lagoon image!

[Gina]

Wonderful - beautiful - love it

[johnh]

Thanks for the comments, we have had an awful year of rain and wind with La Nina weather so now its finally turned out nice with 10 days in a row of clear skies but still some breeze around. A 14" OrionOptics F4.5 scope and the ST10 make imaging that bit easier and less time consuming. Sagittarius and Scorpius look wonderful over head, the Milkyway like misty cotton wool cloud but I miss the galaxies of UMaj and Canes.

Here is a close up of the dust lane looking like a dragon.

John.

[x6gas]

Great stuff John - love the dragon...

[jammo]

Stunning images

[southernman]

Really nice images!

[prokyon]

Wow, fantastic results!