Wallpaper author:
Yovin Yahathugoda
13 Apr 2021
M8 - Lagoon Nebula
Lagoon Nebula processed in the HST palette using raw data from the pro-dataset which were acquired using a Takahashi FSQ-106ED telescope.
Lum - Synthetic Luminance
Halpha - 6x450s
SII - 9x450s
OIII - 6x450s
Total Exposure time - 2.6 hours
Dataset from which the image was processed
M8
4 credit
- Type of target............................................................................................................................Emission Nebula
- Camera............................................................................................................................FLI PL16803
- Target coordinates............................................................................................................................RA 270.9042 Dec -24.3833
- Hemisphere............................................................................................................................Southern
- Telescope location............................................................................................................................Australia
- Transient event............................................................................................................................No
- Observed on............................................................................................................................22 Feb 2020 - 28 Aug 2022
Filter | Avg Exp (s) | Total Exposure | Subframes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red | 123 | 39m | 19 |
| Halpha | 717 | 3h35m | 18 |
| Blue | 130 | 39m | 18 |
| Green | 120 | 36m | 18 |
| Luminance | 100 | 30m | 18 |