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Messier 8 - Messier 20 Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello

Messier 8 - The Lagoon Nebula (below) RA: 271,039° Dec: -24,379° M8 - The Lagoon Nebula (NGC 6523) is a giant H II region in the constellation Sagittarius at 4,000-6,000 light years. The nebula contains several Bok globules (dark, collapsing clouds of protostellar material), the most prominent of which have been catalogued as B88, B89 and B296. Messier 20 - "The Trifid Nebula" (above) J2000 RA: 18h 02m 23s Dec: −23° 01′ 48″ NGC 6514, also known as The Trifid Nebula, is an HII region in Sagittarius discovered by Charles Messier on June 5, 1764. The object is a combination of an opened cluster of stars, emission nebula, reflection nebula and a dark nebula that divide into three lobes this object.

Tair-3S array (2 units) + Canon EOS 4000D Pollino National Park - Piano Visitone (1420m) SQM 21.7 Processed with Luminar 4 AI

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Date Taken on 14 May 2022, 03:34
Source Messier 8 - Messier 20
Author Giuseppe Donatiello from Oria (Brindisi), Italy
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messier 8, messier 20, lagoon nebula, trifid nebula, astrophotography, night, sky, space, universe
Camera location39° 56′ 30.15″ N, 16° 08′ 43.93″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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