Stardust of the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8)

Data captured earlier this year, only processed now as the cloudy weather starts. Experimenting with a different processing technique, and highlighting the dust clouds (consisting mainly of Hydrogen), with star reduction so that the gas and dust stand out.

The Lagoon Nebula (M8, Messier 8 or NGC 6523), is a giant interstellar cloud in the constellation Sagittarius. M8 is estimated to be between 4,000 - 6,000 light-years from Earth in the Milky Way Galaxy, and is classified as an emission nebula.

About Emission nebulae:
Emission nebulae are glowing clouds of interstellar gas which have been excited by some nearby energy source, usually a very hot star. The red light seen in this picture is glowing hydrogen captured in the Hydrogen-Alpha (Hα) Infrared wavelength of light at 656nm.

About this image:
Imaged in Narrowband in the SHO palette (Ha, SII and OIII).

Image Acquisition & Plate Solving:
SGP Mosaic and Framing Wizard.
PlaneWave PlateSolve 2 via SGP.

Integration time:
22 hours.

Processing:
Pre-Processing and Linear workflow in PixInsight,
and finished in Photoshop.

Photographed in the following wavelengths of light:
OIII line at 500.7nm
H-alpha line at 656nm
SII line at 672nm

Astrometry Info:
Center RA, Dec: 271.120, -24.243
Center RA, hms: 18h 04m 28.736s
Center Dec, dms: -24° 14' 35.817"
Size: 1.63 x 1.19 deg
Radius: 1.011 deg
Pixel scale: 3.67 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: Up is 176 degrees E of N
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APOD GrAG:
apod.grag.org/2019/11/28

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