Messier 8 (M8) Lagoon Nebula plus Messier 20 (M20) Trifid Nebula and Saturn photo

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11-AUG-2018

Messier 8 (M8) Lagoon Nebula plus Messier 20 (M20) Trifid Nebula and Saturn

Imaged from Beckwith Township, ON

M20 (top); M8 (bottom) and Saturn on the left side of the image.

Shot using a modified (full spectrum) Nikon D5300 with a HEUIB_II UV-IR cut filter; an STC Duo-Narrowband H-alpha/OIII (10nm) filter; a Stellarvue SV70T with 0.8x Reducer/Field Flattener (336mm focal length/ f/4.8); ISO 200-400; Skywatcher EQ6-R equatorial mount; guiding with a 50mm guidescope and Altair GPCam-IMX290 guidescope and PHD2.

14 x 10minute subs for a total integration of 140 minutes.

Stacked and Processed using Pixinsight and Photoshop CC 2018.

Nikon D5300 ,Stellarvue SV70T with 0.8x R/FF
0.00s full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto

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Hank Vander Velde		11-Aug-2018 19:51
A most colourful well captured night-sky image Doug. Great work.

hayl		11-Aug-2018 17:49
What an explosion of colour - wonderful.

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