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Lagoon Nebula M8, 



    
        

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Lagoon Nebula M8

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Lagoon Nebula M8

Equipment

Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Twinstar 90mm
Imaging Cameras
Canon EOS 600D / Rebel T3i / Kiss X5
Mounts
StarSync Tracker SSTEQ25
Software
GIMP · INDI/Ekos · SIRIL · Darktable
Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses
Celestron Guidescope
Guiding Cameras
QHY5-II Mono

Acquisition details

Dates:
July 13, 2018
Frames:
16×300(1h 20′)
Integration:
1h 20′
Avg. Moon age:
0.45 days
Avg. Moon phase:
0.22%

Basic astrometry details

Astrometry.net job: 4229570

RA center: 18h03m44s.6

DEC center: -24°2316

Pixel scale: 2.656 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: 0.485 degrees

Field radius: 0.700 degrees

Resolution: 1560x1080

File size: 716.7 KB

Locations: Scranton, KS, Scranton, Kansas, United States

Data source: Backyard

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