M8 Lagoon & M20 Trifid Nebulas (Trace)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Sagittarius (Sgr) · Contains: 7 Sgr · 9 Sgr · B296 · B85 · B88 · B89 · LBN 25 · LBN 26 · LBN 27 · LDN 232 · Lagoon Nebula · M 20 · M 8 · NGC 6514 · NGC 6523 · NGC 6526 · NGC 6530 · Sh2-25 · Sh2-28 · Sh2-30 · The star 7Sgr · The star 9Sgr · Trifid Nebula

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M8 Lagoon & M20 Trifid Nebulas

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M8 Lagoon & M20 Trifid Nebulas

Update: Very honored to get a Top Pick today for this image

. Probably the easiest image I've processed, the very good data from that night really made it simple...as quick as it was to process it never occurred to me it would get much attention.

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Returning to two old favorites of mine, the Lagoon and Trifid nebulas. This latest image captures these two beautiful nebulas with a bit more imaging knowledge, and new equipment.

At the beginning of my AstroBin gallery, these two are first seen as captured on film back in the early 1980's.

In 2019 I imaged them as part of my very first attempts at digital astrophotography. Taken in Death Valley and using the same 1970-1980's era telescope and mount, and short exposures and pure manual guiding.

This last image has them both captured in a single image using my 6"f4 Newtonian and autoguiding on the Paramount MYT. Image was taken from William's Hill under Bortle 3 skies.

These two nebulas are a joy to image and process, very bright and colorful.

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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	18h03m41s.31
RA (top/left)	18h06m22s.71
RA (top/right)	18h00m51s.14
RA (bottom/right)	18h00m57s.62
RA (bottom/left)	18h06m33s.56

Dec (center)	-23°43′22″.4
Dec (top/left)	-22°45′17″.5
Dec (top/right)	-22°46′33″.6
Dec (bottom/right)	-24°41′12″.6
Dec (bottom/left)	-24°39′53″.0

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