M8

The Lagoon Nebula

Emission nebula in Sagittarius in HaLRGB
 
Other image sizes
1024 x 768
1420 x 1040

Details:

Optics Celestron 80ED @ f/5.6 , guided with an 8" LX200 Classic @ f/6.3
Mount LX200
Camera Starlight Xpress SXV-H9
Filter Astronomik RGBIIc filters and 13nm Ha filter, IDAS filter for LRGB frames
Exposure Ha - 200 min X 10 min,  L - 36 min x 4 min Ha, RGB - 240 min. : 80 min ea. x 4 min.
Processing Acquired in AstroArt3,DDP. , final work in Photoshop7
Date 07.13.06-07.16.06
Location Elk Grove, CA
Notes Seeing and transparency average to poor. Using the Celestron F/6.3 reducer with the C80ED showed some alignment/coma issues.  The camera appears to be tilted in the x-axis as witnessed by the star shapes on the right side of the image.  I massaged the results in PS, to alleviate this result, but it is still noticable..