The Wide Lagoon

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This wide angle shot taken with an unmodified mirrorless camera captures a field of view that includes the Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae (M8 and M20).
🧭 Where is it? View this image via World Wide Telescope.
Telescope:   Sony ILCE-6300
Length:   135mm
Aperture:   62mm
F-stop:   f/2.11
Sessions:   1
Captured:   2023-05-11 to 2023-05-11
Lights:   100
Exposure:   30
Total exposure:   50 m
Ra:   18h 9m 34.7s
Dec:   -24° 24' 40.703
Size:   478.977 x 284.531 arcmin
Radius:   4.643 deg
Scale:   4.139 arcsec/pixel

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Objects in frame:

NGC6514 M20 NGC6526 NGC6523 M8 IC4685 IC1274 NGC6559 NGC6531 M21 NGC6530 NGC6546 NGC6544 NGC6568 Lagoon Nebula Trifid Nebula The star Polis Al Thalimain Alnam (μ Sgr) 13 Sgr The star 4 Sgr The star 1 Sgr 11 Sgr The star 5 Sgr The star 7 Sgr The star 9 Sgr The star 15 Sgr The star 17 Sgr The star 12 Sgr The star 14 Sgr
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