Image processed by Johnathan Allison, original data from Telescope Live.
Lagoon Nebula
M8 / NGC 6523 · Emission nebula in Sagittarius · ~4,100 ly
One of the few nebulae visible to the naked eye, the Lagoon is a giant cloud of glowing gas over 100 light-years across, named for the dark dust lane that cuts through it like a channel of water. Young stars are forming throughout it, and near its bright core the massive star Herschel 36 lights up the twisted Hourglass region.
- Telescope
- CHI-1-CMOS
- Camera
- QHY 600M
- Location
- Chile
- Source
- Telescope Live
- Filters
- Ha / OIII / SII
- Exposure
- Ha 5h 10m · OIII 4h · SII 3h 45m
- Total
- 12h 55m (155 subs)
- Coordinates
- RA 18h 03m 37.0s · Dec −24° 23′ 00″
- Observed
- 2 Apr 2023 – 24 Jul 2024
- Processing
- PixInsight, AstroWizard, Photoshop
- Processed by
- Johnathan Allison