M8 Lagoon Nebula and NGC 6559 in Bortle 1 unfiltered natural glory (darkdesertdome)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Sagittarius (Sgr) · Contains: 11 Sgr · 7 Sgr · 9 Sgr · B296 · B302 · B303 · B88 · B89 · B91 · IC 1274 · IC 1275 · IC 4684 · IC 4685 · LBN 25 · LBN 26 · LBN 28 · LBN 29 · LBN 31 · LBN 33 · LBN 34 · LDN 180 · LDN 210 · LDN 211 · LDN 212 · LDN 213 · LDN 214 · LDN 221 · LDN 224 · LDN 227 · LDN 230 · And 22 more.

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M8 Lagoon Nebula and NGC 6559 in Bortle 1 unfiltered natural glory

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M8 Lagoon Nebula and NGC 6559 in Bortle 1 unfiltered natural glory

Nothing beats clean data from Bortle 1 skies. I revisited some old data that I captured from a single night under dark skies in New Mexico last year, and I'm very pleased with the result after using Russ Croman's BlurXterminator and other tools. I'm glad I saved the original data. The result is much improved with current processing techniques. I'm sure this will attract minimal interest on Astrobin given the subject matter and the fact that M8 has been imaged thousands of times by others, but sometimes it's worth visiting the showpiece objects anyway. There's a reason why they are so popular! When I was a 12-year-old kid many decades ago, I could've only dreamt about being able to take a photo like this and exploring the heavens with simple equipment. It's a truly amazing time we are living in.

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Astrometry.net job	8044510
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RA (center)	18h06m44s.73
RA (top/left)	18h08m45s.87
RA (top/right)	18h00m16s.87
RA (bottom/right)	18h04m41s.65
RA (bottom/left)	18h13m11s.80

Dec (center)	-24°02′52″.8
Dec (top/left)	-22°38′35″.6
Dec (top/right)	-24°08′39″.6
Dec (bottom/right)	-25°27′07″.2
Dec (bottom/left)	-23°56′11″.10

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