|
Object |
M8-
The Lagoon Nebula |
|
Info |
M8 Nebula is
located in the constellation of Sagittarius and
is visible to the naked eye. Encompassed within the
nebula, on the eastern side of the dark rift is Ngc 6530, a cluster of
about 25 stars of 7th mag. and fainter, formed recently from the
surrounding gas. On the other side of the rift is a dominated by two main
stars, the brighter of which is the blue- white super giant 9 Sagitarii @
mag. 6. Located approximately 5,200 L.y.
away. |
|
Date |
Lum-16/ 4/
07 & RGB data 12/ 5/
07 |
|
Location |
BayTop
Observatory- Streaky Bay South Australia |
|
Instrument |
Home built 10" Newtonian (Bob
Royce primary) and an Antares 1/20th wave secondary
with MPCC
coma corrector. System working @
native f4/
1016 FL 1.35 arcsec/pixel- FOV
23.3x29.4 |
|
Mount |
Celestron CI700 controlled by a Mel
Bartels Goto Control System
with Vexta PK264m-01b motors with a pulley and belt system |
|
Camera (CCD) |
Starlight
Xpress HX916 monochrome CCD with Atik manual
filter wheel. |
|
Exposures |
L: 40' R:10' G:10' B:10'
[1' sub exposures all unbinned] No dark frames removed.
|
|
Guiding |
All unguided exposures. |
|
Filters |
Astronomik
typeII clr RGB filter set |
|
Notes/ Conditions |
Conditions- Taking the Lum the seeing
was a little average but the transparency was excellent. Average
FWHM 1.2 (2xs binned). Taking the colour channels conditions were quite
poor, average FWHM 1.5 (2xs binned). |
