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Lagoon and Trifid Nebulas Hyperstar 20 minutes, Elmiko
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Lagoon and Trifid Nebulas Hyperstar 20 minutes

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Lagoon and Trifid Nebulas Hyperstar 20 minutes

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The Lagoon and trifid are a pair of beautiful bright nebulae in Sagittarius. Both lie about 5000 light years away. And are in the star filled richness of our own MilkyWay galaxy.

I captured this at the end of my imaging session at our clubs dark site ( Bortle 4). This was only 20 60sec subs! Hope to add more data next week, weather permitting. Seeing was 7/10. Would have been better but a wild fire in Tucson 80 miles away was pushing smoke in the area.

Clear skies Mike

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Description: I used curves with a range mask to make the nebulas a bit more colorful , and a tad brighter. At the same time I used a star mask to reduce the stars slightly.
Mike

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Lagoon and Trifid Nebulas Hyperstar 20 minutes, Elmiko