"Lagoon Nebula"

Constellation- Sagittarius

Right Ascension: 18h 04m 09 s

Declination: -24° 23' 06"

Distance: ~5200 light years

Visual Brightness: 5.8 mag

Apparent Dimension: 90x40 arc minutes

Image information-

Date taken-July 10, 2005

Telescope/Focal length/Camera/Temperature- Takahashi FS-78 @ f/8.1, ST-8XE NABG @ -12C, on a NexStar11 GPS autoguided with CCDSoft Ver. 5.0

Integrations- LRGB, L = 18x300 seconds binned 1x1, RGB = 6x300 seconds each binned 2x2

Processing- Flats and darks, aligned and combined in CCDsoft Ver 5.0, color combined in AstroArt 2.0, JPEG conversion in Photoshop