Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Sagittarius (Sgr)  ·  Contains:  Lagoon Nebula  ·  M 8  ·  NGC 6523  ·  NGC 6526  ·  NGC 6530  ·  The star 9 Sgr
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M8 the Lagoon Nebula, in LRGB, wsg
M8 the Lagoon Nebula, in LRGB
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M8 the Lagoon Nebula, in LRGB

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M8 the Lagoon Nebula, in LRGB, wsg
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M8 the Lagoon Nebula, in LRGB

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This is one of my favorite El Sauce images so far.  The Lagoon Nebula is a popular target for Northern and Southern imagers but it is surprisingly low from my backyard.
I had no idea that it looked like this...
This image is 15% LUM and 85% RGB combined in Pixel Math, the only aspect of the color I could naturally affect in processing was the saturation of the purple/blue and magenta/red areas.
I'm saying this is basically the color of the core of Messier 8.

Thanks to Mike Selby for the amazing data.

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M8 the Lagoon Nebula, in LRGB, wsg