M17(The Swan)

Hi All

At about 5,900ly away, in the constellation of Sagittarius shines the emission nebula known as
The Swan(M17)(NGC6618).

Discovered by Messier in 1764 and I'm sure an old favorite of many a stargazer is certainly one object worth returning to every year.

Being very bright and with a reported photographic size of 46 x 47' makes for a great target choice both for small and large equipment.

This image was shot with a SXV-H9C through a ZS 66SD and guided on a AP600E with a ZS110.

Exposure time was not long at 10 minutes x 6 because of clouds so I had some heavy processing to try and deal with the noise but hey,these things happen.

All preprocessing done in Astroart 3 and all post processing in PS(CS2)and of cause for those who are interested a larger image can be found at my site under Most Recent.

I hope you all enjoy.

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Sweet shot Louie!
Beautiful wide-field...


Thanks for sharing! 8)
And keep'em coming!

Darn those clouds!
Looks good even if you didn't get all the time you may have wanted on it.
Nice job dealing with the noise.

Jason

hi Louie,

very nice image of this nebula!
sorry that You only had some 60 minutes - but for this little data is a great image!

Louie,

This is excellent! As bright as this object is, 60 minutes looks to be all you need, unless you want to capture more of the faint extensions.

Eric

Jason,Diets and Eric I thank you for your feedback guy's !

Eric,It seems that there is a lot of Hydrogen in this area so maybe a few hours of Ha would be nice.