M-8 The Lagoon Nebula

Subject:	M-8, a bright nebula in Sagittarius. 4900 light years distant. Associated with open cluster NGC-6530.
Telescope:	Takahashi FSQ-106n
Mount:	Losmandy G-11
Imager:	SBIG ST-7 with CFW-8 filters.
Image Details:	Blooming was a real problem with this image, so many images were summed together to form this final color image. Luminance: Addition of ten 1 minute integrations. Red: Addition of four 1 minute integrations. Green: Addition of four 1 minute integrations. Blue: Addition of eight 1 minute integrations. Dark frames were subtracted from all images prior to addition. Post processing included a DDP in MaxImDL. I think that the colors in this image are more "accurate" than those taken with the MX5c.

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