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M8 (The Lagoon Nebula)
Click the image for a wide field 1.28 arcsec display.
Instrument
12.5" RCOS @ ~f/9 (2880 mm fl) 0.643 arcsec / pixel. Shown resampled to ~3.4 arcsec/pixel.
Mount
Paramount ME
Camera
SBIG STL-11000 w/ internal filter wheel, AstroDon Filters
Acquisition Data
5/16/2008 Chino Valley... with CCDSoft via CCDAutoPilot3
Exposure
H-Alpha 90 min. (3 x 30 bin 1x1)
Software
CCDSoft, CCDStack, Photoshop CS w/ the Fits Liberator plugin, and Noel Carboni's actions.
CCDStack to normalize, data reject & combine.
Comment
North is to the top.