M8: The Lagoon Nebula

M8: The Lagoon Nebula




Conditions:

Date: 2020 05 22

Mount: Losmandy G11 + Gemini 1
Optic; Newtonian Telescope F/D=4 + flattener corrector
Focale: 800mm - Diameter:200mm Camera: ZWO ASI294 Pro + IR cut 2"
No more filters (H-Alpha, CLS, ...)
Site: Bois de Nefles Saint-Paul 55° 19'54"E / 20° 59'58"S
Seeing: Humidity + Light polution
Capture: 32 x 180 sec Temp: -12 deg
Guidind refractor 400mm + ZWO Asi178 (+-1.15" arc)(medium)
Pre processing Dark, Offset, Flat
Software: OS Ubuntu-Linux - Oacapture - PHD guiding - Siril - Gimp

Informations:
it's a giant interstellar cloud
Magnitude: 6.0
Distance: 5,000 light-years
discovered by Giovanni Hodierna before 1654

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