ivanbokyj
Messier 8: The Lagoon Nebula
The Lagoon Nebula,catalogued as the 8th object in Charles Messier's list of comet-like objects, is a large interstellar cloud of gas and dust located roughly 4000~6000 light years away in the constellation of Sagittarius. It is a birthplace of stars, where clouds of gas and dust coalesce under gravity to fuel active star formation.
This is a HDR image of the Lagoon Nebula, photographed from suburban skies in Mersing, Peninsula Malaysia. This rendition was done using a filter-modified Canon EOS 400D at prime focus of an 8" Newtonian Astrograph. The total exposure integration is 2.0 hours (12x600sec), tracked with the Losmandy G11/Gemini 2.
Calibration, Registration and Post-processing performed in Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8 LE.
Messier 8: The Lagoon Nebula
The Lagoon Nebula,catalogued as the 8th object in Charles Messier's list of comet-like objects, is a large interstellar cloud of gas and dust located roughly 4000~6000 light years away in the constellation of Sagittarius. It is a birthplace of stars, where clouds of gas and dust coalesce under gravity to fuel active star formation.
This is a HDR image of the Lagoon Nebula, photographed from suburban skies in Mersing, Peninsula Malaysia. This rendition was done using a filter-modified Canon EOS 400D at prime focus of an 8" Newtonian Astrograph. The total exposure integration is 2.0 hours (12x600sec), tracked with the Losmandy G11/Gemini 2.
Calibration, Registration and Post-processing performed in Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8 LE.