M8 (Lagoon Nebula)
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| Instrument: | Meade 178ED 7" Apochromatic Refractor Telescope |
| Focal Ratio: | f9 (prime focus) |
| Camera: | SBIG STL-11000 CCD camera
(See product review in July, 2004 issue of Sky & Telescope magazine.) |
| Exposure: | 4 x 2 minutes Luminance, 2 x 5 minutes each R/G/B, all unbinned |
| Guiding: | Off-Axis with STV Autoguider
(Santa Barbara Instrument Group) (See product review in May, 2003 issue of Astronomy magazine.) See Photo/Guiding Equipment. |
| Date: | 6/20/04 |
| Post Processing: | CCDSoft, CCDSharp, MaxIM DL, Photoshop CS |