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The Lagoon nebula - M8, Piet Vanneste
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The Lagoon nebula - M8

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The Lagoon nebula - M8

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The famous Lagoon nebula , hardly imageable from where I live 
Very complex starforming nebula in Sagittarius with in the center the globular cluster NGC 6530
Imaged in RGB with ASI 183MC , unguided on Ioptron GEM 28EC , less than an hour total time

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The Lagoon nebula - M8, Piet Vanneste