M8 Lagoon Close-up Nebula in Sagittarius
 
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Telescope: Takahashi BRC-250, 1260 mm, F/5 - Takahashi FSQ-106, 530 mm, F/5
CCD Camera: Finger Lakes ProLine 16803 / CFW-4-5 - SBIG ST-10XME / CFW-8
Mount: German equatorial mount German Astro-Physics 1200 GTO
Integration: ProLine: Luminance - 70 minutes. ST-10XME: RGB 20:20:20 minutes
Date / Location / Sky: 2 June 2008 Sicily, Nebrodi Mounts, 1500 m. s.l.
FWHM: 5.4" 21.2 mag. per squared arcsec
Software: MaxIm-DL, Registar, PhotoShop

Publications:

Old version: Nuovo Orione January 2005
Nuovo Orione October 2005
RAI Educational 2 / RAI 3 Nazionale 22 September 2005, "A scuola di stelle"