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M8 - Lagoon Nebula, Trace
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M8 - Lagoon Nebula

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M8 - Lagoon Nebula

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Imaged from Death Valley. Compare to my image of M8 using the same gear except captured by an Olympus OM-1N on Lumicon Hypered Fuji 400 film back in 1984.

Many thanks to Roger Clark for his advice and assistance with rnc-color stretch. Also, much thanks to Wei-Hao Wang for his forum posting on asin stretching. It was very helpful in the processing of this image.

I very much enjoy this article by Roger Clark regarding the color in this and other astronomical objects.

https://clarkvision.com/articles/astrophotography-color-and-critics/

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Description: Switched to Canon DPP 4 to process raw images (since it works directly with CR3) instead of RawTherapee. Increased exposure.

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M8 - Lagoon Nebula, Trace