The Lagoon Nebula, M8 (NGC 6523)
noirlab_noao-lag June 30th, 2020
Credit: N.A.Sharp, REU program/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
The Lagoon Nebula, Messier object 8 (M8) or NGC6523, in the constellation of Sagittarius. This false-color, emission-line image was created from a total of twenty-nine separate exposures taken at the Burrell Schmidt telescope of Case Western Reserve University's Warner and Swasey Observatory (the Burrell Schmidt is located on Kitt Peak, near Tucson, Arizona). The observations were made through three narrow pass-band filters centered at wavelengths of 4861 (blue), 5009 (green), and 6563 (red) angstroms. The images were taken in May and July of 1994 during the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program operated at the Kitt Peak National Observatory and supported by the National Science Foundation.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-lag/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noao-lag
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- Lagoon Nebula, M8, NGC 6523
- Credits
- N.A.Sharp, REU program/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
- Release Date
- 2020-06-30T21:34:06
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-lag/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Burrell Schmidt Telescope, Burrell Schmidt Telescope, Burrell Schmidt Telescope
- Instrument
- None, None, None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Ha, None, None
- Central Wavelength
- 656, 500, 486
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 271.1237396, -24.30960757
- Reference Dimension
- 3600.0, 3600.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1316.434557, 1888.865936
- Scale
- -0.000282, 0.000282
- Rotation
- 1.734836441
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NSF's NOIRLab
- URL
- https://noirlab.edu
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- 950 North Cherry Ave.
- City
- Tucson
- State/Province
- AZ
- Postal Code
- 85719
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- NSF's NOIRLab
- Publisher ID
- noirlab
- Resource ID
- noao-lag
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-lag.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-02T11:52:24.913016
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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