Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Sagittarius (Sgr)  ·  Contains:  IC 1274  ·  IC 4685  ·  Lagoon Nebula  ·  M 8  ·  NGC 6523  ·  NGC 6526  ·  NGC 6530  ·  NGC 6544  ·  NGC 6559  ·  The star 7Sgr  ·  The star 9Sgr
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The Lagoon Nebula & surroundings, Arun H
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The Lagoon Nebula & surroundings

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The Lagoon Nebula & surroundings

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The Lagoon Nebula and surroundings imaged from a dark sky site outside Milwaukee.

This was one of the first objects I imaged when I got into astrophotography. My original attempt in 2018 (Version C here) was taken using a portable tracker, a 5D Mark IV unmodified DSLR, and 400mm lens and processed using Roger Clark's RNC color stretch with no gradient removal. I wanted to go back to this object with better equipment and experience. The Lagoon remains very low in the sky in SE Wisconsin, attaining a maximum altitude of 22 degrees.

I could have chosen to include the Trifid in this framing, which is the usual way of presenting this. But I chose instead to include IC1274, IC1275, and NGC6559. I took 12 x 60s exposures to resolve the core of the nebula. Not sure I needed to, but constructed a HDR luminance anyway.

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Description: My DSLR version from 2 years ago taken using a 5D Mark IV and 400mm lens

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The Lagoon Nebula & surroundings, Arun H