Jim Burnell's CCD Images - M8 Clicking on an image will display a high-resolution view.

 

Object: M8 & M20 The Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae	Emission Nebula	Const.: Sagittarius
Camera: SBIG STL11000M	Scope: Tele Vue NP127is	Mount: Losmandy Titan
Filter(s): Hα:R:G:B	Exposure: 14x8m:5x4m:5x4m:5x4m	blank
This image shows M8 and M20, the Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae in Sagittarius. This image was acquired using an SBIG STL11000M CCD camera mounted on a Tele Vue NP127is. This image is a color composite using the Hα image below as the luminance channel and stacks of 5 four-minute exposures through red, green and blue filters for the color channels. The colors are G2V-balanced using the AIP4Win Color Calculator. Compare this HαRGB image with the LRGB image further down the page. All processing was performed using AIP4Win Version 2. This image has been resampled down from its original size of 4008x2672.

 

Object: M8 & M20 The Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae	Emission Nebula	Const.: Sagittarius
Camera: SBIG STL11000M	Scope: Tele Vue NP127is	Mount: Losmandy Titan
Filter(s): Hα	Exposure: 14x8m	blank
This image shows M8 and M20, the Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae in Sagittarius in Hydrogen-alpha light. This image was acquired using an SBIG STL11000M CCD camera mounted on a Tele Vue NP127is. This image is a stack of 14 eight-minute exposures that were calibrated, defect-corrected and stacked using AIP4Win Version 2. The new Sigmoid Scaling feature of AIP4Win V2.1.10 was used to compress the extreme dynamic range of this image in order to display the tremendous amount of nebulosity in this region of the sky. This image has been resampled down from its original size of 4008x2672.

 

Object: M8 & M20 The Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae	Emission Nebula	Const.: Sagittarius
Camera: SBIG STL11000M	Scope: Tele Vue NP127is	Mount: Losmandy Titan
Filter(s): L:R:G:B	Exposure: 5x4m:4x4m:4x4m:4x4m	blank
This image shows M8 and M20, the Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae in Sagittarius. This image was acquired using an SBIG STL11000M CCD camera mounted on a Tele Vue NP127is. This image is a color composite of a stack of 5 four-minute exposures using a luminance (IR-block) filter and stacks of 4 four-minute exposures through red, green and blue filters. Note that while this image shows the same field as the HαRGB image above, The contrast is greatly reduced, but the blue nebulosity around M20 is much more prominent. All processing was performed using AIP4Win Version 2. This image has been resampled down from its original size of 4008x2672.

 

Object: M8 (NGC6523)	The Lagoon Nebula - Emission Nebula	Const.: Sagittarius
Camera: SXV-H9	Scope: Tele Vue NP-101	Mount: Losmandy Titan
Filter(s): Hα:L:R:G:B	Exposure: 6x8m:4x8m:4x8m:4x8m:4x8m	Hα Luminance blend
This image of M8, the Lagoon Nebula was acquired using an SXV-H9 CCD camera on a Tele Vue NP-101. The luminance channel is a blend of 48 minutes of Hydrogen-alpha and 32 minutes of broadband red, with the color coming from 32-minutes each of red, green and blue filtered data. The image was exposed through hazy summer skies. The Ha component of the luminance channel was sharpened using a Wavelet filter. All processing was performed using AIP4Win V2. Click on it to see a full size image.

 

Object: M8 (NGC6523)	The Lagoon Nebula - Emission Nebula	Const.: Sagittarius
Camera: SXV-H9	Scope: Vixen R200SS	Mount: Losmandy Titan
Filter(s): IR block	Exposure: 21x60s	TeleVue Paracorr
M8, the Lagoon Nebula in Sagittarius. This image is a stack of 21 one minute exposures using an SXV-H9 CCD camera on a Vixen R200SS 8" f/4 Newtonian equipped with a Paracorr. The exposures were calibrated, defect-corrected and stacked using AIP4WIN. This image has been resampled down from its original size of 1392x1040. Click on it to see a full size image.

 

Object: M8 (NGC6523)	The Lagoon Nebula - Emission Nebula	Const.: Sagittarius
Camera: HX916	Scope: AP130	Mount: AP1200GTO
Filter(s): L:R:G:B	Exposure: 16x30s:8x30s:8x30s:8x30s	blank
M8, the Lagoon Nebula in Sagittarius. This color image was created from an 8 minute luminance image stack and 4 minute red, green and blue image stacks. The Gaussian histogram shaped grayscale image below was used as the luminance channel. The luminance channel was taken using 1x1 binning, while each color channel was acquired using 2x2 binning. The images were combined and balanced automatically using AIP4WIN's automated color tools, using the Equalize Color option. All images were taken using a 5" f/6 refractor. This image has been resampled down from its original size of 1158x918. Click on it to see a full size image.

 

Object: M8 (NGC6523)	The Lagoon Nebula - Emission Nebula	Const.: Sagittarius
Camera: HX916	Scope: AP130	Mount: AP1200GTO
Filter(s): IR block	Exposure: 16x30s	blank
M8, the Lagoon Nebula in Sagittarius. This image is a stack of 16 thirty second images using a 5" f/6 refractor, calibrated and Gaussian histogram shaped using AIP4WIN. This image has been resampled down from its original size of 1300x1030. Click on it to see a full size image.

 

Hydrogen-α
Object: M8 (NGC6523)	The Lagoon Nebula - Emission Nebula	Const.: Sagittarius
Camera: SXV-H9	Scope: Vixen R200SS	Mount: Losmandy Titan
Filter(s): Hα	Exposure: 5x8m	TeleVue Paracorr
The Lagoon Nebula in Sagittarius. This image is a stack of 5 eight minute exposures shot through a Hydrogen-alpha filter. The exposures were acquired using an SXV-H9 CCD camera on a Vixen R200SS 8" f/4 Newtonian equipped with a Paracorr. The exposures were calibrated, defect-corrected and stacked using AIP4WIN. Wavelet sharpening was applied to enhance the structure. This image has been resampled down from its original size of 1392x1040.