Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Sagittarius (Sgr)  ·  Contains:  IC 1274  ·  IC 4684  ·  IC 4685  ·  Lagoon Nebula  ·  M 8  ·  NGC 6523  ·  NGC 6526  ·  NGC 6530  ·  NGC 6559  ·  The star 7Sgr  ·  The star 9Sgr
M8 - Lagoon Nebula, Kyle Butler
M8 - Lagoon Nebula
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M8 - Lagoon Nebula

M8 - Lagoon Nebula, Kyle Butler
M8 - Lagoon Nebula
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M8 - Lagoon Nebula

Equipment

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Acquisition details

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Description

Subs
20x 600s Ha (Atik Med Gain Preset, bin 1x1)
30x 300s OIII (Atik Med Gain Preset, bin 1x1)
6.0 hours total integration time


Processing
Processed each channel individually
Frames calibrated and stacked in PixInsight, drizzle 2x
DynamicCrop to trim borders from dithering
DynamicBackgroundExtraction on each channel
EZ Processing Suite EZDenoise on each channel
Lightly stretch each channel to non-linear using HistogramTransformation
Combined using PixelMath (HOO)
CurvesTransformation to stretch it further
Star reduction with MorphologicalTransformation
ColorSaturation with careful masking
Final noise reduction and local contrast enhancement in Photoshop

Comments

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M8 - Lagoon Nebula, Kyle Butler