Lagoon Nebula (M8) Pictures
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Lagoon Nebula (M8) Picture

9/19-20/2006 at the HAS site near Columbus.  Canon EOS 20Da (unmodified), Takahashi TOA 130 (a 5" APO refractor), Losmandy G-11 mount.   My current image processing workflow is here.  On this image I also ended up doing a variant on Jerry Lodriguss' layer masking technique to preserve detail in the bright area.  Compare with the old film image, bottom.

Lagoon Nebula (M8) Close Up

This is a crop/resize of the image at the top of the page.  Dig the Bok Globules..  Compare with old film image, below.

M8  Film Stack

This is a stack of 4 different film images on two different telescopes.  See the SEDS write-up   Can you make out the small black globules?  From Seds: One of the remarkable features of the Lagoon Nebula is the presence of dark nebulae known as 'globules' (Burnham) which are collapsing protostellar clouds

This is The Hourglass nebula, but the hourglass is difficult to see in this image (it's in the bright part, and is a bit washed out).