M8 - 2020 Project (Uwe Deutermann)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Sagittarius (Sgr) · Contains: 7 Sgr · 9 Sgr · B296 · B88 · B89 · Lagoon Nebula · M 8 · NGC 6523 · NGC 6526 · NGC 6530 · Sh2-25 · The star 7Sgr · The star 9Sgr

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M8 and M17 will be my 2020 project (if weather permits). Spent the last 2 nights to image the most I can, meaning 40 minutes max per session until the trees of the neighbor get in the way. To get a free view on this area of the sky I would need to go out in the driveway, will do that when this area is available in the evenings and not necessarily at 3am in the morning. Set my alarm clock at 2:30am and got up, had to take advantage of those wonderful spring days. It is actually around 65 degrees at that time of the night here, just perfect. Still, falling asleep again after being up at that time is a tough task!

So this is the very first HOO image of this session, never targeted it so far and for me it is a wonderful nebula, I wish I could take hours of it. Well, maybe I get those hours together during 2020, looks like that I will have quite some time with everybody kind of being locked down at home. Will be interesting to see what can come out of it at the end of the year. Tonight no 2:30am wake up call, work is still around, one should be retired by now 😊! Another challenge is of course the mount, the AVX is ok, but one can see that the RA guding is not the best, and 5 minute exposures seem to be a bit much for it. Hopefully a new mount is coming in soon!

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Description: Created the original HOO image with PS instead of PI, applied then afterwards the same corrections. Merged the resulting image with the PI obtained one.

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	3485570
PixInsight job	5PASI0A1O8MG2K1JRAYNLR2JFVNDB0Y6
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	n/a

RA (center)	18h03m47s.50
RA (top/left)	18h07m23s.25
RA (top/right)	18h01m30s.88
RA (bottom/right)	18h00m09s.76
RA (bottom/left)	18h06m04s.54

Dec (center)	-24°14′33″.3
Dec (top/left)	-23°56′00″.4
Dec (top/right)	-23°31′52″.1
Dec (bottom/right)	-24°32′47″.6
Dec (bottom/left)	-24°57′02″.5

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