The Lagoon Nebula

M8 - The Lagoon Nebula

Image copyright: Allen Versfeld

This image of the Lagoon Nebula was taken by Allen Versfeld under a moderately dark sky just West of Centurion, Gauteng.  The Lagoon is an emission nebula, in the constellation Sagittarius.

50x8sec, stacked and processed in Iris
Canon 1100d at prime focus on Celeston C8 with F/6.3 reducer.

Post-processed in digiKam