Messier 8 The Lagoon Nebula

M8 The Lagoon Nebula

I haven't done any imaging since March....on Friday, despite the bright moon, I took some close up images of M8 using "Live Stack" in Sharpcap, 10 minutes with a QHY462C. I added this to a previous image of M8 and also added some OIII

Setup#1(for FOV)

Camera: QHY163M

Telescope: 11" Celestron Edge HD w/V4 Hyperstar

Mount: Orion HDX-110

Optolong LUM filter: 50x30sec

Setup#2(for star color & OIII)

Camera: QHY128C

Telescope: Astrotech AT65EDQ

Mount: Orion HDX-110

8x600sec Optolong LUM filter

11x480sec Optolong OIII filter

Setup#3(for core area) LIVE STACK

Camera:QHY462c

Telescope: 11"Celestron Edge HD

Mount: Orion HDX-110

LUM:30x20sec

Images processed in PixInsight, combined and tweeked in PS2020. Qhy 128 OSC data cropped and combined with QHY163M Luminance data, QHY462C LUM added for core area

The Lagoon Nebula is 8 in Charles Messier's "not a comet" list, 25 in the Sharpless catalog and 6523 in the New General Calalog.(NGC) It is a cloud of ionized hydrogen estimated to be 4000-6000 light years from earth. It can be seen with the naked eye as a gray/green patch in the constellation of Sagittarius..Almost in the center of the photo can be seen NGC 6530, an open cluster of young stars formed from material within the nebula. The entire nebula is roughly 110 x 50 light-years wide.

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