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The Lagoon Nebula, Steeve Body
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The Lagoon Nebula

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The Lagoon Nebula

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M8 in Narrowband with RGB stars

The Lagoon Nebula was discovered in 1654 by astronomer Giovanni Battista Hodierna.
This star forming cloud of gas in located in the constellation of Sagittarius and is visible to the naked eye in dark skies. 
M8 is home to a star cluster NGC 6530 which ionise the oxygen at the centre of the nebula.  
It is located approximately 5200 light years from earth. In Australia we like to nickname this object "mate" due to its Messier number M8 ;)

This was probably one of the first nebula I captured using my DSLR when I started astrophotography a couple years ago. I'm glad to see this target back in our southern skies this season. I only got a mono camera since January this year and this Nebula does not disappoint. Similar to Orion it can be quite tricky to processed as the luminosity in the core of the nebula is quite intense compared to the rest of the nebula. Great target to practice narrowband imagning as Ha, Sii and Oiii signal are quite strong.

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