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Lagoon Nebula ( M8 NGC6523 ) Size: 1° x 35' Magnitude: 6.00 RA: 18:03:48 DEC: 00:23:00 Best obeserved in June at midnight Scope: 8-inch Newtonian on Samson equatorial mount Imaging Method: prime focus Camera/CCD: Canon EOS 300D (digital rebel) Location: Newcastle, Australia Condition: Seeing: - - Transparency: - Exposure: 3frame at ISO 400, 1866 seconds (31.1 minutes) each Description: This image cropped and reduced from original, 3 images stacked with Photoshop Photographer: Paul Mayo, 20.07.2004 photo ranked: 6.49 with 39 votes (not realtime, last updated: 13.11.2009 12:50) References to more Photos: High Resolution Version of this Photo (will open new window)   More of Lagoon Nebula ( M8 NGC6523 )   More of Canon EOS 300D (digital rebel)   More of 8-inch Newtonian on Samson equatorial mount   More of Paul Mayo   More of prime focus If you want to judge the quality of that photo, please... (Be fair and take into account that faint and small objects are more difficult than bright and big ones!) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] © 1997 - 2010 astroscopic labs for design and web programming - photo or article is copyrighted by the photographer or author, respectively