M8 | The Lagoon Nebula (Steeve Body)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Sagittarius (Sgr) · Contains: 7 Sgr · 9 Sgr · B296 · B88 · B89 · HD164386 · HD164515 · HD164535 · HD164536 · HD164537 · HD164585 · HD164602 · HD164793 · HD164865 · HD164906 · HD164907 · HD164933 · HD164947 · HD165016 · HD165052 · HD165133 · HD165246 · HD165289 · HD165321 · HD165345 · HD313753 · HD313756 · HD314898 · HD314899 · HD314900 · And 35 more.

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M8 | The Lagoon Nebula

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M8 | The Lagoon Nebula

M8 most certainly needs no introduction. I'm very well aware that the world may not need another picture of this object... but I never really got a good picture of it myself.... So this was my attempt.

The Sii layer has some amazing structural detail found in no other layers.

During processing my goal was to showcase this structure as much as possible. I used a blend of Sii and Ha for the luminance layer to achieve this with about 65 Sii 35 Ha. That worked really well.

I took this quick screen shot of all my final pre processed layers before going in PS which shows the difference between the emission lines.

The final version is a slight crop of the original framing processed with an SHO blend and RGB stars, all stacked and pre-processed in PI and blended in PS.

The refractors!
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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	8392538
PixInsight job	ZRUPWYYA33SX0B4H9DH4EVVI8P9IK2DQ
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	18h04m22s.80
RA (top/left)	18h07m05s.48
RA (top/right)	18h02m06s.73
RA (bottom/right)	18h01m39s.15
RA (bottom/left)	18h06m40s.00

Dec (center)	-24°17′49″.9
Dec (top/left)	-23°55′37″.1
Dec (top/right)	-23°47′44″.2
Dec (bottom/right)	-24°39′52″.1
Dec (bottom/left)	-24°47′51″.9

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