M8 - The Lagoon Nebula in Sagittarius ( Steve Milne )

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M8 - The Lagoon Nebula in Sagittarius

Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses: Takahashi FSQ106ED
Imaging Cameras: QSI 683wsg
Mounts: Paramount MyT
Filters: Astrodon Ha 5nm · Astrodon Tru-Balance LRGB E-Series Gen 2 Luminance · Astrodon Tru-Balance LRGB E-Series Gen 2 Blue · Astrodon Tru-Balance LRGB E-Series Gen 2 Green · Astrodon Tru-Balance LRGB E-Series Gen 2 Red
Software: Adobe Photoshop · Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight

Dates:: June 5, 2017
Frames:: Astrodon Ha 5nm: 21×900″(5h 15′) bin 1×1
Astrodon Tru-Balance LRGB E-Series Gen 2 Blue: 15×600″(2h 30′) bin 1×1
Astrodon Tru-Balance LRGB E-Series Gen 2 Green: 21×600″(3h 30′) bin 1×1
Astrodon Tru-Balance LRGB E-Series Gen 2 Luminance: 23×600″(3h 50′) bin 1×1
Astrodon Tru-Balance LRGB E-Series Gen 2 Red: 12×600″(2h) bin 1×1
Integration:: 17h 5′
Avg. Moon age:: 11.12 days
Avg. Moon phase:: 85.73%

Basic astrometry details

Astrometry.net job: 1921610

RA center: 18h06m56s.2

DEC center: -24°08′16″

Pixel scale: 2.099 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: 359.877 degrees

Field radius: 1.199 degrees

Resolution: 3294x2462

File size: 6.7 MB

Locations: Deep Sky West, Rowe, NM, United States

Mesier 8 - the Lagoon Nebula - is an interstellar cloud around 4100 light years away in the constellation Sagittarius.

This is HaLRGB data from Deep Sky West in new Mexico. Data were captured between April and June 2017. The 'capture date' shown is the final date on which subs were obtained.

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Description: Slightly less 'aggressive'

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Description: Considerably less aggressive. It's so easy to slip back into bad habits.

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Description: Consensus appears to be that the more saturated version is best - so movement back towards that. Certainly more detail in the 'core'

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Description: I am archiving old data and continue to find some issues that arose when my monitor colour profile was not set correctly. Apologies for any inconvenience.

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