Lagoon Nebula (M8) and NGC 6559

I consider this image the true first light of my new canon 6D (Baader modified by Hypercams), showing the uncropped full-frame, very properly illuminated by my AP130GT.

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IMAGING DATA (RGB Session)
Optical train: AP130 EDF GT + AP flattener
Mount: Losmandy G11
Guiding: SMC Takumar 67 f/4 200mm guidescope + QHY5L-II mono + PHD
Camera: Canon 6D (Baader modded, 3 frames peltier cooled)
Frames: 12 lights 10 min. ea. @iso800, calibrated with 200 bias, 20 darks and 30 flats.
Processing: PI 1.8 + Canon DPP
Date: 2014-04-02 (2 frames) & 25 (10 frames)
Place: Mercedes (2 frames) & Areco (10 frames), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Seeing & transparency: average/mediocre (humid stormy night with passing high clouds) on the 2nd, and good/very good on the 25th.

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