Lagoon, Trifid, and Loreta Nebula's (silversilk)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Sagittarius (Sgr) · Contains: IC 1274 · IC 4684 · IC 4685 · Lagoon Nebula · M 20 · M 21 · M 8 · NGC 6514 · NGC 6523 · NGC 6526 · NGC 6530 · NGC 6531 · NGC 6544 · NGC 6546 · NGC 6559 · The star 4 Sgr · The star 5 Sgr · The star 7 Sgr · The star 9 Sgr · Trifid Nebula

Lagoon, Trifid, and Loreta Nebula's, silversilk

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Lagoon, Trifid, and Loreta Nebula's

This was the first light data with my new equipment purchased earlier this year. I had not worked out the backspacing or collimation / tilt which can be noticed if you pay close attention to the stars in the field (take a close look at NGC6544 star cluster to the left of M8 and you can barely make out a single star there). As a result, I pushed the stars back quite a bit to mask those imperfections, as well as to let the nebulosity take center stage.

This is another target I am looking forward to next year for so I can grab some data with the L-Pro as (apposed to the L-Extream data in this version) to add some more natural star color.

On a side note, M8 will always have a special place for me in this hobby as it was the first target I had ever captured. I remember the feeling hovering over the computer with my young son at the time waiting for that first exposure to finish. When the image loaded, we both giggled and realized that there was so much out there we were missing with visual observing.

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