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M8, The Lagoon Nebula in Sagittarius
An emission nebula lying 4000-6000 years from Earth. Also designated NGC 6523.  An HII star-forming region.  Contains the open cluster NGC 6530.

M8, The Lagoon Nebula in Sagittarius

An emission nebula lying 4000-6000 years from Earth. Also designated NGC 6523. An HII star-forming region. Contains the open cluster NGC 6530.




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Filename:M8-LRGB-20120624_85.jpg
Album name:27telp / Nebulae
Location and Date:OCA site near Anza, California, 6/24/2012
Equipment:William Optics FLT-132 scope, QSI 583wsg CCD camera, Astro-Physics 1200 GTO mount, Starlight Xpress Lodestar autoguider camera
Settings:13 300-second exposures L; 12 300-second exposures each R, G, B; 305 minutes total exposure time
Notes:Software: Image capture with Maxim DL v. 5.12, post-capture-processing with CCDStack v2 and Adobe Photoshop CS4
Filesize:251 KiB
Date added:May 14, 2019
Dimensions:2048 x 1541 pixels
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