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30-May-16	Andy Casely

Diving into the Lagoon

Loftus, NSW

It seems a bit too appropriate to be processing up an image of the Lagoon Nebula, Messier 8, on an atrociously wet weekend in Sydney. Nonetheless, it's a lovely sight - a large star-forming nebula about 4,100 light-years away in Sagittarius. Pretty open cluster NGC6530 decorates the front of the Lagoon. Scattered around the Lagoon are a number of twisted dark shapes - Bok Globules, dust clouds that likely hide newborn stars. The biggest of these were catalogues by EE Barnard as B88 (top left), B89 (centre left) and B296 (bottom centre).

Canon EOS 60D
27 x 5 minutes (2hr 15min), ISO800, EOS 60D, darks, flats and bias subtracted. 200mm f/5 Newtonian on HEQ5 pro mount, OAG & StarShoot Autoguider. Stacked and processed in PixInsight and Photoshop. hide exif

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