Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Sagittarius (Sgr)  ·  Contains:  7 Sgr  ·  9 Sgr  ·  B296  ·  B88  ·  B89  ·  LBN 25  ·  LBN 26  ·  LDN 180  ·  Lagoon Nebula  ·  M 8  ·  NGC 6523  ·  NGC 6526  ·  NGC 6530  ·  Sh2-25  ·  The star 7 Sgr  ·  The star 9 Sgr
M8 - Lagoon Nebula, Jan Scheers
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M8 - Lagoon Nebula

M8 - Lagoon Nebula, Jan Scheers
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M8 - Lagoon Nebula

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Hubble colour palette image of the Lagoon nebula (M8 ) in Sagittarius.

This SHO-image was acquired with the ASA500N telescope and FLI PL16803 camera from Telescope Live in El Sauce Observatory, Chile.

Total exposure time 180 minutes.
6 subframes of 600s with each narrowband filter (SII, Ha and OIII). 

Processing with Astro Pixel Processor, Photoshop CC with AstroPanel Pro, Astronomy Tools, Topaz Sharpen AI and Denoise Projects 3 plug-ins.

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M8 - Lagoon Nebula, Jan Scheers