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

 

Object: 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 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. All processing was performed using AIP4Win Version 2. This image has been resampled down from its original size of 4008x2672.

 

Hydrogen-α
Object: 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 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	The Lagoon Nebula - Emission Nebula	Const.: Sagittarius
Camera: STL-11000M	Scope: Tele Vue NP-101	Mount: Losmandy Titan
Filter(s): IR block	Exposure: 16x60s	blank
This image of the region around M8, the Lagoon Nebula and M20, the Trifid Nebula was acquired from my home observatory using an STL11000 CCD camera on a Tele Vue NP-101. It is a stack of 16 one minute exposures, calibrated and stacked and exponential histogram shaped using AIP4Win V2. Click on the image to see a larger version.