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M8, The Lagoon Nebula in Sagittarius
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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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File information |
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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