Many fine celestial objects of differing types are visible in this image and the most prominent being The Lagoon Nebula, a giant emission Nebula and HII region, M20 or NGC 6514 known as The Trifid Nebula a combination of emission nebula (the red area) and reflection nebula (the blue area) and dark nebula. Also visible are the star forming regions of NGC6559, IC 1274 and IC 1275. Open clusters M21 and Globular Cluster NGC 6544, Reflection Nebula IC 4685 to name just a few.
Incidentally I captured M8 and M20 last year using a refractor over 4 nights for a total integration time of 6.5 hours
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Location: DownUnder Observatory, Fremont MI
Date of Shoot: July 6th 2014
RGB 24 min 4 x 2 min ea, bin 1x1
Luminance 8 min 4 x 2 min, bin 1x1
H-Alpha 24 min 6 x 4 min, bin 1x1
Equipment
QHY11S monochrome CCD cooled to -20C
Takahashi E-180 F2.8 Astrograph
Paramount GT-1100S German Equatorial Mount
Image Acquisition Maxim DL
Stacking and Calibrating: CCDStack
Registration of images in Registar
Post Processing Photoshop CS5
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