M8 Lagoon and M20 Trifid nebulas in Sagittarius. Taken with Canon 20Da camera at ISO 400 and Canon 200mm L Lens at f/4 and for 6 minutes. Stack of Four exposures. Taken from Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia, July 2006.
M8 Lagoon Nebula and M20 Trifid Nebula, with Astro-Physics Traveler 4-inch apo refractor at f/6 with Canon 5D camera, for 7 minutes each at ISO800. Stack of four exposures. Taken from Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia, July 2006. Slight trailing and soft focus.
The spectacular field of Messier 8 and 20 emission and reflection nebulas in Sagittarius, with M8, aka the Lagoon Nebula below, and M20, the Trifid Nebula, above, all set in the rich starfields of the Milky Way. The diffuse nebula left of M8 is NGC 6559. A globular cluster, NGC 6544, sits below and to the left (east) of M8. The Messier open cluster, M21, sits above M20. I shot this April 6, 2016 from the Tibuc Cottage at Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia, using the 77mm Borg f/4 astrograph for a stack of 5 x 5-minute exposures with the filter-modified Canon 5D MkII at ISO 1600.
