Re: [APML] Lagoon and Triffid Region

["Jim Janusz" <jjanusz@dc.rr.com>]

Loke,

Very interesting, deep shot.  I really like the colors, M8 is not the deep
red we see with color films it's more like the shot that was in Astronomy
some months ago.

Beautiful............

Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "lkt" <tan@cox.net>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 1:54 AM
Subject: [APML] Lagoon and Triffid Region


>
> OK, here is another shot of the M8 (Lagoon) and M20 (Triffid) region in
> Sagittarius. This was taken with an 8" F/1.5 Schmidt camera with
> tricolor filters on hypered Tech Pan. HC110 Dil. B was used to process
> the film for 14 mins. This developer was selected due to the extreme
> brightness of the core of M8 and M20 which means that the image would
> have a lot of dynamic range. Even so, the red channel was done with a
> composite of a 5 min and a 25 min exposure with a #92 filter. The long
> 25 min exposure with the #92 filter can extract a lot of the red
> nebulosity in this region but the cores of M8 & M20 were saturated. More
> exposure data is on the webpage. Comments are welcome.
>
> http://www.starryscapes.com/nebula/m8_m20_wide.html
>
> Loke
>
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