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Lagoon Nebula
M8 | Messier 8 | NGC 6523
The Lagoon Nebula is an interstellar gas cloud over 110 light years long. The bright blue stars in the foreground are the open cluster NGC 6530.


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10 Sep 2010

Details:
Night of:Friday September 10, 2010
Site:Palomar Mountain
Local Time:9:30 PM | Sep 10, 2010
Altitude:25°
RA:18h 08m 37s
Declination:-24d 23'
Distance:4,000 light years
Magnitude:+0.0 mV
Size:90' x 40'
Camera Settings:
Telescope:9.25-SCT
Camera:Orion Starshoot DSI2 + 0.5x Reducer
f/ratio:f/5
Pixel Scale:1.49 arcsec
Image Size:768 x 573 pixels (0.4 MP)
19.1' x 14.2'
Exposure:30 sec
Stacked Frames:15
Total Integration:8 minutes
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