Friday, August 23, 2019

Lagoon Nebula M8

The Lagoon Nebula, Messier M8 is an interstellar cloud in the constellation Sagittarius and about 4100 light years away from Earth.
The picture was taken with Nikon D7500 and TAL200K f/8.5, with settings : ISO3200 and exposure of 19 minutes (each picture 30s). Stacking using DeepSkyStakker and final editing using CS4. On the left, open star cluster NGC6530.