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Tag: LBN 25

Lagoon Nebula

My two and a half hour exposure of the Lagoon Nebula, M8.

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2021-05-19 NGC 6523 M8 Lagoon Nebula Stack_16frames_

Lagoon Nebula M8

NGC 6523

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Lagoon Nebula, M8

Burnham’s Celestial Handbook (forty years old and still available) describes M8 as “One of the finest of the diffuse nebulae….seen … More

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