Lagoon (M8) and Triffid (M20) Nebulas

I am on the fence on this once. This is my first wide-field attempt at anything in this rich region of the sky, near Sagittarius and, thus the center of the Milky Way. There are a LOT of stars and patchy regions in this part of the sky, and it was a real test as far as capturing the images and processing them was concerned. I fiddled around with different processing techniques and settled on the result below. I want to go back and try some different things later. I was able to bring out a bit of color in both nebulas, and captured the denseness of the star fields nearby. As with my Pleiades shot in my previous post, I think a much longer exposure would have been better, and with guiding too. Happy with it for my first attempt, though.

Image Details:

• William Optics 66MM Refractor
• Mounted on a Meade 8" LX200 Classic with Milburn Wedge
• Nikon D40 DSLR
• ISO800
• 20 *120 second light frames
• 6*120 second dark frames
• 8* flat frames
  
• Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
• Level and curve adjustment in GIMP
• Noise reduction in Neat Image