This picture features the colorful area to the left (west) of the more famous M8, the Lagoon Nebula, near Sagittarius.  The dark nebula in the middle of it all is B303.  NGC 6559 is the glowing red nebula and is 5000 to 6000 light years away.  Jerry Lodrigus' page has a lot of info about this area.  This page identifies the objects.

This is a combination of 20 x 4minute images night of 9/20/2006 at the HAS site.  Canon EOS 20Da (unmodified), Takahashi TOA 130 (a 5" APO refractor), Losmandy G-11 mount.    My current image processing workflow is here. 

Wider View of above; cool dark nebula

A Visual Index to all the cool objects around M8 and M20 is here.

Dick Locke's HAS Astrophotography Index

Index for September 19, 20, 21, 2006

Check out: Trifid and M8 - includes area object links

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