M8 Lagoon Nebula, NGC 6523, Const: Sagittarius, Type: Emission Nebula, Mag: 5.8: Size: 90'x40'

• 05Jun04 - SXV-H9 image of M8 (Televue TV101 OTA (540mm) at f/5.4 on G11, (HaL)RGB of 60:50:15:15:15 [all 5 minute subimages, unbinned H-alpha and unfiltered luminance, 2x2 binned RGBs]), Processing: MaxIm (2X resize of RGBs, DDP on Ha), color combine), Photoshop (HaLRGB processing). Taken from LBV [seeing 3, transparency 7, guided with SXV guidehead at 170mm on ST80 guided through MaxIm].
• 7/06/02 - HX916 image of M8 (f/3.75, Meade LX10, 20 minute total exposure [a stack of 10 2 minute images], STV guided, binned 2x2, from LBV [seeing 4, transparency 7, tracking 2.0X,1.8Y]). Processing: AIP (flat and dark calibration, stacking), MaxIm (DDP, contrast and brightness adjustment).
  
• 6/08/02 - HX916 image of M8 (f/3.75, Meade LX10, 10 minut total exposure [a stack of 10 1 minute images], STV guided, binned 2x2, dark and flat frames applied, default Digital Development Process (DDP) performed then simple contrast stretch performed in AIP, from LBV [seeing 7, transparency 7, unguided]). This image was taken unguided since I was using the STV's f/3.75, Meade LX10 focal reducer as a test. It seems to work fine. Notice the field of view relative to other HX916 images below.
  
• 5/11/02 - HX916 image of M8 (f/6.3, Meade LX10, 10 minute total exposure [a stack of 10 1 minute images], STV guided, binned 2x2, dark and flat frames applied, default Digital Development Process (DDP) performed then simple contrast stretch performed in AIP, from LBV [seeing 7, transparency 8, tracking 8]).
  
• 07/21/01 - Prime focus shot of M8 (f/6.3, Meade LX10, 30 minutes autoguided with STV using its eFinder, Fuji Superia 800 X-Tra, LBV). The seeing was terrible this night, hence the large stars. The new film (Fuji changed from "Superia" to "Superia X-Tra", saying they added a fourth color layer) caused the center of the brightest portion of the nebulosity to be a yellowish/greenish color.
• High resolution scan from the full-frame photo of May 26, 2001 (210mm@f4, 30 minutes piggybacked on LX10 autoguided with SBIG STV, Fuji Superia 800, at Big Bear (altitude 7600', during RTMC'01)). The bright hourglass-shaped object in the lower right is Mars!.
• High resolution scan from the 210mm film photo of August 26, 2000 (210mm@f4, 20 minutes manually guided, Fuji Superia 800, 08/26/00, LBV).
• 9/3/00 - STV image of M8 (f/3.75, Meade LX10, track and accumulate (6 of 10 seconds), wide mode, Meade broadband filter, from home).
• 8/26/00 - STV image of M8 (f/3.75, Meade LX10, track and accumulate (8 of 5 seconds), wide mode, from LBV).
• Digitized Sky Survey image of M8 for comparison
• SEDS info on M8