Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Sagittarius (Sgr)  ·  Contains:  IC 1274  ·  IC 4684  ·  IC 4685  ·  Lagoon Nebula  ·  M 20  ·  M 21  ·  M 8  ·  NGC 6514  ·  NGC 6523  ·  NGC 6526  ·  NGC 6530  ·  NGC 6531  ·  NGC 6544  ·  NGC 6546  ·  NGC 6559  ·  The star 4Sgr  ·  The star 7Sgr  ·  The star 9Sgr  ·  Trifid Nebula
Sneak Preview of Sagittarius, Marc Agostini
Sneak Preview of Sagittarius
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Sneak Preview of Sagittarius

Sneak Preview of Sagittarius, Marc Agostini
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Sneak Preview of Sagittarius

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This April, I had a couple of good nights arround the new moon. I did the earlybird thing and collected some lights in the hours before dawn, I had a window of 1h/night.

As a target I chose my first ever deepsky target, the region containing the lagoon and trifid nebula. I was astonished to see how much signal I could get in just 2 hours, especially considering how low (culmination at 19deg) M8 is where I live! I am looking forward to gather some more time on this target, conditions permitting.

This is also the first image I publish here made with my new mount, the iOptron CEM25p. I am very content with its performance, but now that I have perfect guiding I can see that I have some Issues with sensor tilt..... Well that's astrophotography for you ;-)

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Sneak Preview of Sagittarius, Marc Agostini

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