M8 cropped from a larger image, taken with the FSQ and STL-11000M in June, 2005.

The Lagoon and Trifid nebula region taken on June 18, 2004 at Anza, CA with the STL-11000 and WO 105mm.

This image of M8, the Lagoon Nebula, is a combination of ten 10-minute exposures for lumenence with a special narrow passband Hydrogen-alpha filter and ten 2-minute exposures each with R, G, and B filters taken on June 16, 2002 at Anza, California with a 3.3 focal reducer on the 10" f/10 Meade LX-200 with Pictor 1616XTE, all images unbinned.  First try with the Ha filter.

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