Deep Sky Object in Summer
Wide field around Lagoon Nebula


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Date & Time: May 4 2016, from 26:44 to 27:16 JST(+0900)
Mosaic of 2 flames of 4min.×4shots
Optical: BORG 60ED with a conversion lens (f=245mm, F4.1)
with IDAS LPS-P1 Light-pollution suppression filter
Auto-guided with TAKAHASHI EM-200 Equatorial
Digital Camera: Canon EOS 6D (Remodeled)
Location: Furudono town, Fukushima pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(5472×3648)
Device Size...35×24mm, Sensitivity...ISO1600





Objects around the Lagoon Nebula
This star-field image covers around M8(Lagoon Nebula) in Saggitarius with a span of 8×9°. The image has captured the center of Milky Way, you can appreciate that the complicated dark and emission nebulae have distributed in almost all of this field.
You can browse individual object pages from links below.




M8(Lagoon Nebula) & M20(Trifid Nebula)

M16(Eagle Nebula)


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