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 Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 5:00 pm Post subject: WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Lagoon Nebula |
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The Lagoon Nebula, M8 or NGC 6523. As one of the showpiece objects of the summer sky in the northern hemisphere, the Lagoon never rises very high from most locations north of the equator. This image of the Lagoon was imaged from Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. Twenty hours of data were collected over several nights with seeing usually around 0.5" and occasionally as low as the mid 0.30".
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