M8 region

I've been wanting to shoot this region for a number of years. So, now that I tried I decided to go for some exposure time. Again, my goal was to see if I could tease out any "new" nebulous objects that are not usually seen. The main one that jumped to my eye was the light blue halo surrounding and overlying M8 itself. I normally don't see this as I suspect it gets processed out. M8 looks bright in my image but that is on purpose, so to see this nebulous structure. Also, I left the HII regions hydrogen pink rather than darkening them so to see them better. I hope this is not too offensive to your eye.

http://www.tvdavisastropics.com/astroimages-1_00004f.htm

Comments welcome.

Tom

Nice wide field Tom, lots of details there.

Wow, Tom, that is beautiful! It is such a deep exposure it is almost unrecognizable at first. Great work.

Nicely done, Tom.
I think that you made good processing choices, especially in regards to the blue.
My regards,

dan

This picture is great, thanks for posting!

Tom, the details came out very nice. I think different objects and different data requires tailored processing. I think you processed what you wanted to show and it comes accross very nicely.

I like the M8 blue halo.

Amazing shot Thomas!
Wonderful detail & colors!

Simply fantastic Tom!
I like the more Pink color of the HII areas. You got a few stars in the image too 8O


Jason