M8 - The Lagoon Nebula
M8 - The Lagoon Nebula is located in the constellation Sagittarius. It's an area of recent or continuing star formation located approximately 4500 light years away. More information about this nebula can be found at the Messier Index - M8 and at the Web Nebulae - M8.
The above color image is a composite image created using a monochrome ccd image (shown below) as the luminance of the composite and a color film image (shown at the bottom of this page) as the chrominance of the composite. This provides the color information from the film image to the higher-definition ccd image.
The above ccd image is a composite of 40, 10-second exposures obtained on 8 September 2002.
The below film image is a 30-minute exposure at the prime focus of a 16" f/4.5 Newtonian using hypered Fuji 800 film taken on 29 July 1997.
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