A very low target in the Southern sky from my location, the Lagoon Nebula is rather bright so I went with 180 second exposures at 800 asa. I stacked something like 38 subs or about 1.9 hours of data. Tracking was unusually poor with steady periodic swings. Some of this may be from the low physical orientation of the mount and some may be from the atmosphere although the sky in general seemed to have stable air. In another move that I have not done much if at all in this blog, I used the “2x drizzle” function while stacking the sub exposures. This gives an output with double the resolution. After initial conversion to 16 bit the image scale is reduced back to normal scale and the effect is a sharper image to start off with.
