The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.

— Anaxagoras 428 BC

Lagoon Nebula

By ebfaulkner6a at Mon, 08/04/2008 - 6:49pm

Sagittarius has many open clusters and a few nebula of which this is one, the Lagoon Nebula.  Sunday night was a 10 out of 10 for seeing, especially for imaging.  This image is only 23 minutes long.  I have a 66 mm scope mounted on top of the Orion 80ed and was viewing the Lagoon Nebula while taking images.  I could not believe my eyes as to the clarity and beauty this nebula shows in a dark sight.  The dark areas could not be illuminated by the stars and appear darker than the background.  Approximately 5,000 light years away and 50 light years across. Hydrogen gas, dark dust lanes and bright turbulent center. This image was taken in Ha.

Lagoon Nebula

Man, this is your best work

Submitted by marzulloj
on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 5:34pm

Man, this is your best work yet!

M16?

Submitted by kuky
on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 3:35pm

When you doing that ?

My fav from that area ;)

Ha Filter or Not?

Submitted by kuky
on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 3:28pm

On this gorgeous one?

You'd start invite and charge your neighbours for some sky watching nites