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45 min c-6 canon1000d moded half of my pics got ruined of this so gonna have to go back and get some more On a clear, dark night, look about 5° (two finger- widths) west of 3rd-magnitude Lambda Sagittarii, the star that marks the top of the easily recognizable asterism called the Teapot. You will surely notice a bright comet-like patch, similar in size to the well-known Orion Nebula.
This is M8, nicknamed the "Lagoon Nebula", a vast cloud of interstellar gas and dust more than 50 light-years across and about 5,700 light-years distant. M8 is a fine example of an H II region: an emission nebula in which strong ultraviolet radiation from two very hot stars - 6th- magnitude 9 Sagitarii and 9th-magnitude Herschel 36 - excites surrounding hydrogen gas and causes it to glow.
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Comment by spike77 on March 22, 2011 at 1:47pm
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yeah man i had to load up the scope and go to a freinds house to get it i have a lot of trees in my yard it sucks thanks for looking conor
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Comment by Conor on March 22, 2011 at 12:22pm
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Bah! Lucky you getting to shoot this one! I'd love the chance! Great shot man.
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yeah this one needs about 1hr added to it was a lil dimer than i first thought thanks for looking man
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