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Widefield image of the Lagoon Nebula and surrounding sky - taken with the Bradford Robotic Telescope Cluster Cam
5 * 2min subs (R) - stacked in DSS, processed in GIMP
Canon EOS Rebel XTi monomod + Baadar BCF + Baadar Halpha 7nm, with EF85mm F1.8 USM @ ISO800, F2.8, ss120ｘ21(Ha) 2015/08/22
This is the final version of the series.
Equipment: Sigma 35mmF1.4 Art, IDAS NB12 Dual Narrowband Filter or Clear Filter, and EOS R6-SP5, modified by Seo San on ZWO AM5n Equatorial Mount, autoguided with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, ZWO ASI 174MM-mini, and PHD2 Guiding
Exposure: 7 times x 1,200 seconds, 8 x 240 sec, and 10 x 60 seconds at ISO 6,400 and f/3.2 with Dual Narrowband Filter and 10 times x 600 seconds, 9 x 240 sec, and 10 x 60 seconds at ISO 1,600 and f/3.2 with Clear Filter
site: 2,560m above sea level at lat. 24 23 21 South and long. 70 12 01 West near the peak of Cerro Ventarrones Chile
Ambient temperature was 11 degrees Celsius or 52 degrees Fahrenheit. Wind was mild, and guide error RMS was 0.73". Sky was dark, and SQML was 21.77 at the night.
A wide view of Sagittarian trio of nebula.
Though really much more than a trio when viewed up close, the two most recognisable of the bunch are the Lagoon nebula at bottom and the Trifid Nebula at the top.
date: Aug. 15th, 2020
location: Amagi Plateau, Shizuoka Pref, JPN
optics: Carl Zeiss APO Sonnar 135mm F2.0
camera: CANON EOS 5D Mark IV (Unmodified)
mount: Kenko skymemoR w/o auto guide
exposure: ISO1600, 90sec x23, F2.0
Crimea, Nauchniy, May 2013
Canon 6D + Samyang 85mm f/1.4@f/2.0
10 frames x 4-5 sec (don't remember), darks, offset
IRIS: registering, stacking
PS: postprocessing
I called this image "Fantastic 4" in reference to HQ (superheroes) and the four sky elements crossing the center of the image:
Saturn (left side), Jupiter (center left), Sagittarius Star Cluster (center right) and Lagoon Nebula (right side).
Molecular clouds and the center of the Milkyway crossing up to down in the right side.
The Swan Nebula is on the top of the Milkyway and Ptolomy's Cluster is in the right down corner.
The Moon was in the right side of the Milkyway generating a flare in the image but after sometime the building cover its light.
It's a new composition.
After the lens fixing by myself, I could using my Meike 35mm f/1.7 again for astrophotography.
* 23 photos x 5 seconds
* ISO 3200
* f/2.8
* Camera Fuji X-E1
* Lens Meike 35mm f/1.7
* Tripod Manfrotto Compact Action
Chamei esta imagem de "Quarteto Fantástico" em referência à história em quadrinhos (super-heróis) e os quatro elementos do céu cruzando o centro da imagem:
Saturno (lado esquerdo), Júpiter (centro esquerda), Aglomerado de Estrelas de Sagitário (centro direita) e Nebulosa da Lagoa (lado direito).
Nuvens moleculares e o centro da Via Láctea cruzando de cima para baixo no lado direito.
A Nebulosa do Cisne está na parte de cima da Via Láctea e o Aglomerado de Ptolomeu está no canto inferior direito
A Lua estava no lado direito da Via Láctea gerando um "flare" na imagem, mas depois de algum tempo o edifício encobriu sua luz.
É uma nova composição.
Depois de arrumar as lentes sozinho, pude usar minha Meike 35mm f / 1.7 novamente para astrofotografia.
* 23 fotos x 5 segundos
* ISO 3200
* f/2.8
* Câmera Fuji X-E1
* Lente Meike 35mm f/1.7
* Tripé Manfrotto Compact Action
Reprocess of this photo with dark and bias frames, and an attempt to bring out more of the H-alpha nebulosity
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For 28 years, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been delivering breathtaking views of the universe. Although the telescope has made more than 1.5 million observations of over 40,000 space objects, it is still uncovering stunning celestial gems.
The latest offering is this image of the Lagoon Nebula to celebrate the telescopeâs anniversary. Hubble shows this vast stellar nursery in stunning unprecedented detail.
At the center of the photo, a monster young star 200,000 times brighter than our Sun is blasting powerful ultraviolet radiation and hurricane-like stellar winds, carving out a fantasy landscape of ridges, cavities, and mountains of gas and dust. This region epitomizes a typical, raucous stellar nursery full of birth and destruction.
I'm spoilt, I admit it- I live 20 miles from some of the best dark-sky sites on the East Coast. But where I shoot is surrounded by cities and towns so my landscape options are more limited than other parts of the country. When the skies cleared at 1am last night, I didn't feel like driving or hiking all over in search of a new vantage point, so I tried a few different ways of shooting an area I've covered many times before.
More of the Ektachrome 200 shot at Montebello Open Space Preserve in August. Exposure of about 40 minutes.
Pleasantly surprised at how well the tracking worked on this image. Even at 1:3, I don't see errors. Of course at 1:1 the star images break down and you can see some issues of flatness. Still, this is a pretty decent shot of the region.
What's amazing is that there were no airplanes during this long exposure.
I may eventually pull this image into PI and do some work with deconvolution etc.
In all, I'm happy with how the shot looks with all the knots of dark nebula in the lower right.
Captured with a Canon 650d Modified DSLR Camera.
No filters taken from a bortle 1 sky taken near Walebing Western Australia.
76 x 5-minutes
Total: 380-minutes
Telescope: GSO 6 inch F4 Newtonian
Mount: Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro
Taken 19-20th June 2020
The Lagoon is large and bright, and is one of the few nebulae visible to the naked eye. It appears as a colorless smuge in Saggitarius near the galaxy center. I'm not sure if all the bright stars within the nebula arose from the nebula or if they just shine through. The Trifid is a great example of emission (red) and reflection (blue) nebulae viewed side by side.
The gory details: This was taken with a modified Canon 450D at ISO 1600 and a 500mm lens at f/4 riding piggyback on a Celestron 9.25" scope, which was used as a guidescope. This is 23 images totalling about 51 minutes of exposure. The images were stacked separately into groups of 4, 2, 1, and 0.5 minute exposures, and the 4 stacks were then processed as an HDR image in Photomatix. The image was further processed using DPP and Noel Carboni's tools for Photoshop Elements.
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Habíamos salido a acampar a la playa y un ventoso día nos recibió complicándonos un poco el campamento (las tiendas se deformaban alarmantemente y parecía que se iban a romper). Durante la noche, la luna, casi llena, iluminaba el lugar como si fuera de día, a pesar del cielo ligeramente nublado. Conforme avanzó el tiempo, la luna se ocultó y un trío de escandalosos lobos marinos se acercó a desayunar casi frente a nosotros. Era poco más de las 4:00 A.M. ; no podíamos ver a los lobos marinos pero el ruido que hacían los ponía en evidencia. Al mirar hacia arriba, el cielo nos mostraba algo espectacular: miles de estrellas y la vía lactea que lo cruzaba de lado a lado. Sin duda, una escena inspiradora.
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We went camping to the beach, and the windy day made us worry about our tents because it blew them almost flat to the ground and could be broken. After a hard day, the night was very clear and everything was illuminated as if it were the day by the almost full moon. At 4:00 a.m. or so, Three loud sea lions came to take their breakfast infront of our camping zone and they woke up all of us. The moon had set at that time so we couldn't see those sea lions, but we could hear all the noise they were making. Instead the sky above was giving us a great spectacle: Thousands of stars spread out everywhere and you could see the milky way crossing the sky side by side. No doubt it was an inspiring moment.
© Estenotopo 2009
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I've taken a lot of recent lessons learned and applied them to this data set. The original lights were captured on the night of Aug 24, 2011. At the time, I tried working with them and could only get some burned out images out of them. Over time, I learned about getting temperature matched darks for my DSLR and then about working with groups in DSS. With all this effort, I've been able to bring this shot to life.
There are still problems with flawed flats, but there's not much I can do about them since I didn't take flats that evening. I still had not learned the lesson to do that every night. Also, you can barely see some amp glow along the top of the frame. This may be something that I could remove with some better darks or by doing the stacking in PI.
Color balance was reset when I stacked, as I did not have the white balance set properly for the filter at the time I did the shots. I'm not sure if I like the burgundy look of the nebula. I did tweak the balance a bit in LR but at this point it's all aesthetics.
Used a full-spectrum modified Pentax K10D camera with a Stellarvue SV4 scope. Guiding with PHD by Orion SSAG on the Stellarvue SV70ED all on Losmandy GM8 mount. SV flattener used with Baader Moon and Skyglow filter.
3 frames (ISO: 200) - total exposure: 15 mn 0 s with 4 darks
2 frames (ISO: 200) - total exposure: 20 mn 4 s with 2 darks
4 frames (ISO: 200) - total exposure: 40 mn 8 s with 4 darks
Grouping like this was done to keep the lights and darks temperature matched. Stacking was done in DSS.
Processing done in PI. Mostly masked stretch, histogram stretch, sharpening, deringing, noise reduction, black structure enhance. Brought the image into LR to do spot fixes and a final stretch, sharpen, and denoise for the web.
We are looking toward the central region of our galaxy, where the density of stars — as well as of gas and dust clouds — reaches its peak, forming intricate dark structures. This portion of the sky is also rich in emission nebulae, particularly the pairs Eagle–Omega (M16–17) higher up, and Lagoon–Trifid (M8–20) lower down.
Technical data
Modified Canon EOS 6D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4
SkyWatcher Star Adventurer
30×30s at f/3.5, ISO 6400
Bortle 4 sky (SQM 20.8 mag/arcsec²)
Taken with an unmodified Canon 600D and a 150mm Newtonian. This was done unguided at short exposure times from 30 seconds to 2 minutes at low ISO exposures to control the light pollution and the glare of a full moon last night. It's pleasing to know that the Canon's factory built low pass filter lets quite a bit of Hydrogen-alpha emission through as is shown in this image. Processed and stacked in DSS, Canon Digital Photo Professional, and Irfanview.
AVX, C8 @f/6.3, 6x 180-sec ISO 800, SSAG+50mm guidescope
With 3-minute subs, my keeper rate falls to about half, mostly due to declination badness (backlash and overcorrection?). Still, I'm quite happy with the faint detail I picked up here.
Location: Robert Moses State Park
Camera: Konica SLR
Lens: 57mm lens at f/1.4 with IDAS light pollution filter
Film: Kodak Elite Chrome 200
Exposure Length: 10 minutes
Image processed in Photoshop to adjust levels and resized.
Taken on a really good night at Robert Moses State Park. The camera was piggybacked on my 127mm Mak. Unfortunately I set the f-stop on the camera lens to f/1.4. That caused a significant amount of coma in the images. You can see the effect in the stars, particularly near the edges of the images. Rather than nice round circles, the stars look like triangles. I should have made the f-stop f/2 or higher.
The Lagoon Nebula - M8
Equipment:
SBIG ST-2000 LRGB Ha Filters.
Skywatcher 12 in reflector.
NEQ6 pro Mount.
Details:
Exposures of 600 sec each frame.
3xL, 3xR, 2xG, 2xB, 3xHa
Processed in MaxIM DL and Photoshop.
Exposure: 9x600s Ha + 9x600s OIII
Camera: QHY21
Telescope: Sky-Watcher Equinox 80
Mount: Sky-Watcher NEQ6-Pro
A public domain photo from NASA's site Astronomy Picture of the Day, this shows the Lagoon Nebula, a star-forming region about 5,000 light-years distance from us. More can be read about it at the APOD site for Oct 2 2010. If you enjoy astronomy photos, why not bookmark the site at apod.nasa.gov/apod/ - you can simply enjoy the photos or learn more by clicking the hyperlinks included in each day's story.
Full size view is available for viewing too at 3924 x 2006 pixels.
The Milky Way in the region of the Galactic Centre in Sagittarius, photographed with it high in the sky from Australia. The actual centre of the Galaxy lies near centre of the frame. The dark clouds that form the Dark Horse and the Pipe Nebula are at right...The clusters Messier 6 and Messier 7 are at bottom, with M7 lost in the star clouds of the Milky Way. ..The Lagoon and Trifid Nebulas, M8 and M20, are at top. Saturn is the bright star at top right. The Dark Horse region of dark dust is at right, with the darkest part below being the Pipe Nebula, B78. The small Snake Nebula, B72, is at right...This is a stack of 4 x 2-minute exposures at f/2.8 with the Rokinon 85mm lens, and filter-modified Canon 5D MkII at ISO 2500. Taken from Tibuc Gardens Cottage near Coonabarabran, Australia. ..The image could be turned 90° CCW to better resemble its orientation in the sky in which it was photographed in the southern hemisphere, This orientation matches the view in the northern hemisphere. Some haze in one of the frames added the natural star glows.
Campo Astronomico 2009 - Mormanno (CS) Parco Nazionale del Pollino.
45 minuti di posa autoinseguita sulle due nebulose nel Sagittario. Eos 40D con Canon 70-200 f/2,8 a 200mm chiuso a f/3,5
taken off the porch of a condo in Perdido Key, Florida. Canon Rebel Xti, canon 50mm f1.8 lens, 15 seconds at ISO 1600.
pentax k-5, tamron 70-200 @ 200 mm f/4 800 ISO
60" single shot, stars followed using pentax astrotracer
M8 taken by BAS member Roy Uyematsu at Chiefland Astronomy Village 7June08
Image Name : M8 Lagoon Nebula
Type: Deep Sky Subtype Emission Nebula
Equipment: Takahashi FSq106, STL4020, Robo-focus, AstroDon I-series filters
ImageDetails: time Lum 40Min RGB 30 min each, Binned 1X1 10 minute subframes, Processed in CCDSTACK
Misc: Image taken Saturday Night June 8th after Midnight from Chiefland, Pretty good skies but the smell of Smoke was in the air and some high clouds came through and ruined one set of RGB frames. Was concerned 10 min subframe would overexpose bright areas but it did not
Edited Chandra Space Telescope image of the Lagoon Nebula (also known as M8 and NGC 6523).
Image source: chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2018/archives/more.html
Original caption: Also known as NGC 6523 or the Lagoon Nebula, Messier 8 is a giant cloud of gas and dust where stars are currently forming. At a distance of about 4,000 light years from Earth, Messier 8 provides astronomers an excellent opportunity to study the properties of very young stars. Many infant stars give off copious amounts of high-energy light including X-rays, which are seen in the Chandra data (pink). The X-ray data have been combined with an optical image of Messier 8 from the Mt. Lemmon Sky Center in Arizona (blue and white).
(Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona)
Ocasionally I took photo of the Lagoon Nebula, Trifid Nebula, M23 from the window of my apartment, I noticed that there is new star discovered by three Japaneses; Hideo Nishimura (Shizuoka-ken, Japan) - Koichi Nishiyama (Kurume, Japan) and Fujio Kabashima (Miyaki, Japan) in Feb 12th, 2015 now: Nova Sagittarii 2015 = PNV J18142514-2554343
The yellow marker indicate this new star.
Canon EOS Kiss DX mod with EF85mm F1.8 USM + Astronomik CLS + EOS Low-pass filter -1 @ F4.5 ISO3200 ss60x2 + ss120x1 + ss80x5, long-Exp NR ON, 400plus
Taken at Cherry Springs State Park in PA.
Stack of 10 images, for total exposure of about 15 minutes.
Taken with Canon 5d Mark II and 200mm F2.8L lens.
M8 (Lagoon Nebula) is the bigger one, M20 (Trifid Nebula) is the smaller one right at the center.
M8 Lagoon Nebula and M20 Trifid Nebula, accompanied by the M21 and M23 open clusters and NGC 6544 globular cluster
M8 in Sagittarius
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
Editing with Luminar AI
RA: 271,039° Dec: -24,379°
M8 - The Lagoon Nebula (NGC 6523) is a giant H II region in the constellation Sagittarius at 4,000-6,000 light years. The nebula contains several Bok globules (dark, collapsing clouds of protostellar material), the most prominent of which have been catalogued as B88, B89 and B296.
An interesting detail in the M8 region is a gas bubble corresponding to the WISE source G006.160-00.608 that surrounds the infrared source IRAS 17588-2356.
It is clearly a YSO, that is a protostar, which has recently freed itself from its cocoon of gas and dust. Ultraviolet radiation excites part of the surrounding gas making it responsible for the H-alpha emission of the tiny HRDS G006.160-00.608 [L. D. Anderson et al 2011 ApJS 194 32].
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The Messier Catalog, sometimes known as the Messier Album or list of Messier objects, is one of the most useful tools in the astronomy hobby. In the middle of the 18th century, the return of Halley's comet helped to prove the Newtonian theory, and helped to spark a new interest in astronomy. During this time, a French astronomer named Charles Messier began a life-long search for comets. He would eventually discover 15 of them. On August 28, 1758, while searching for comets, Messier found a small cloudy object in the constellation Taurus. He began keeping a journal of these nebulous (cloudy) objects so that they would not be confused with comets. This journal is known today as the Messier Catalog, or Messier Album. The deep sky objects in this catalog are commonly referred to as Messier objects.
The New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (abbreviated as NGC) is a catalogue of deep-sky objects compiled by John Louis Emil Dreyer in 1888 as a new version of John Herschel's General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars. The NGC contains 7,840 objects, known as the NGC objects. It is one of the largest comprehensive catalogues, as it includes all types of deep space objects and is not confined to, for example, galaxies. Dreyer also published two supplements to the NGC in 1895 and 1908, known as the Index Catalogues, describing a further 5,386 astronomical objects.
Swirling dust clouds and bright newborn stars dominate the view in this image of the Lagoon nebula from NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope. Also known as Messier 8 and NGC 6523, astronomers estimate it to be between 4000 and 6000 light years away, lying in the general direction of the center of our galaxy in the constellation Sagittarius.
The Lagoon nebula was first noted by the astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil in 1747, and a few decades later became the 8th entry in Charles Messiers famous catalog of nebulae. It is of particular interest to stargazers as it is only one of two star-forming nebulae that can be seen with the naked eye from northern latitudes, appearing as a fuzzy grey patch.
The glowing waters of the Lagoon, as seen in visible light, are really pools of hot gas surrounding the massive, young stars found here. Spitzers infrared vision looks past the gas to show the dusty basin that it fills. Here we see the central regions of the Lagoon with green showing the glow of carbon-based dust grains, and red highlighting the thermal glow of the hottest dust.
The various columns of dust all seem to point inwards towards the central depths of the Lagoon. These structures are being sculpted by the intense glow of giant, young stars found at the nebulas core. Within these clouds of dust and gas, a new generation of stars is forming.
This image was made using data from Spitzers Infrared Array Camera (IRAC). Blue shows infrared light with wavelengths of 3.6 to 4.5 microns, green represents 4.5 to 8.0 micron light and red, 24-micron light.
I thought I needed a wider FOV for this target (vs. my last photo).
6x 4-minute subs with the 80ED. The Magnificent Mini can guide this focal length, no sweat. I should have done longer subs. Also, more subs, although I'll have a bit of difficulty with that because this target is low in the sky and I only have a narrow gap between the neighbor's trees.
My first attempt at tracking and stacking deep sky images. I still need to work on focus and finding the correct aperture/ISO settings for my camera. A faster lens wouldn't hurt too. I get some pretty serious amp glow from the D80. 7 3-minute subs with bias/flats/darks subtracted.
Nikon D7100
Focal Length: 50mm
2 6-image-stacks (median) stitched in Photoshop
Optimize Image: Normal
Color Mode: aRGB
Long Exposure NR: Off
High ISO NR: Off
2016/03/13 03:03:48.2
Exposure Mode: Manual
White Balance: Direct sunlight
RAW lossless compressed (14-bit)
Metering Mode: Multi-Pattern
AF Mode: Manual
5 sec - F/2
Flash Sync Mode: Not Attached
Exposure Comp.: 0 EV
Sharpening: Normal
Lens: 50mm F/1.4 D
Sensitivity: ISO 1600
Image Comment: (c) Gerard Prins (+56) 22758 7209
North Sagittarius region and a boat load of Messier objects. Composite of 5 images each 90 seconds at ISO 800, f/5.6 and a 75mm lens. These were taken with a iOptron Skytracker.
What can you learn in your first year of astrophotography .... well, a picture (in this case 6) is worth a 1000 words .... Here is a comparison of my very first astrophotos, fully processed to my abilities when I took them on the left one year ago to the ones I took over the past month and fully processed.
Make sure you view a Larger Version so you can see just how awful my first ones were :-) (though at the time I was happy that I was getting anything)
Yes, I have upgraded equipment, which definitely helps, but technique and processing skills have greatly increased as well.
I have cropped and adjusted the scale so they are comparable in size for comparison purposes, otherwise, no additional editing was done on the photos from my processing a year ago (ugh!)
This comparison just goes to show what a learning curve this hobby has and how much progress you can make in just one year if you keep at it!