M8 - Lagoon Nebula (Victor Van Puyenbroeck)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Sagittarius (Sgr) · Contains: Hourglass nebula · Lagoon nebula · M 8 · NGC 6523 · NGC 6526 · NGC 6530 · The star 7Sgr · The star 9Sgr

M8 - Lagoon Nebula, Victor Van Puyenbroeck

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M8 - Lagoon Nebula

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M8 - Lagoon Nebula

UPDATE 20/12/2018: Reprocessed with new workflow

UPDATE 21/06/2018: Added OIII data for M8 and reworked completely as HOO with RGB stars.

Original description 05/06/2017:

The Lagoon and Trifid nebulae are two very bright stellar nurseries, surrounded by gas and dust. I also included the open cluster M21 near the top of the frame.

From my northern location, these hydrogen regions only reach a maximum altitude of 14-16 degrees. I captured this a couple months ago along with some RGB, unfortunately not enough for a good HaRGB image. I ended up reprocessing the Ha only. The DarkStructureEnhance script in PixInsight worked really well on this image!

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Description: One year later: added OIII and did a complete rework with RGB stars.

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Description: Reprocessed with techniques that I used for my image of NGC281

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Description: Less noise reduction, no HDR, better starmask for RGB stars

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