Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Sagittarius (Sgr)  ·  Contains:  Lagoon Nebula  ·  M 8  ·  NGC 6523  ·  NGC 6526  ·  NGC 6530  ·  The star 7 Sgr  ·  The star 9 Sgr
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
M8 Lagoon Nebula, Wilson
M8 Lagoon Nebula
Powered byPixInsight

M8 Lagoon Nebula

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
M8 Lagoon Nebula, Wilson
M8 Lagoon Nebula
Powered byPixInsight

M8 Lagoon Nebula

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

Integrate S, H, O images
Star align to Ha, dynamic crop, DBE, MLT for each master light, 
reduce star size in S by starmask (0.5) & morpho (min, amt = 0.75, itr=5)
histogram transform each, again to align the peak
Channel Combination (S,H,O), SCNR (green, 0.9)
same starmask to reduce saturation of stars
L mask + curve transform (sat) to tune background contrast, color

LRBG combination (Ha, SHO)
Histogram transform to tune green channel
Curve transform to adjust contrast and saturation

Comments

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

M8 Lagoon Nebula, Wilson