The Lagoon Nebula is a bright gas cloud in Sagittarius. I can’t image it from my home observatory, but I can from my daughter’s home in rural northern Indiana. I hauled the Seestar with me and was able to capture the Eagle Nebula on a clear night. I had no such luck with my attempt to image the Lagoon. I was only able to image 114 x 10 second frames—-19 minutes in all—before the clouds rolled in. However, due to the Bortle 2 skies (!) and the brightness of the Lagoon, I was able to capture a very pleasing image. The first inage is the jpeg straight off the Seestar with no additional processing at all. It’s the image your phone saves when you stop imaging. The second image
is what you get with additional processing of the FIT files saved by the Seestar. Stacking, drizzling, star removal and reconstitution were performed in Siril, as was the histogram stretch. I made very small adjustments in Affinity; I did not do any noise reduction. It’s amazing how much detail the Seestar captured in a mere 19 minutes!
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