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Old 18-08-2010, 10:12 PM
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Not sure how you guys will see this as an achievement or anything but I nearly fell of my chair when I found Lagoon Nebula in my photo.

Since knowing that the cluster of stars near the centre of the image is M7, I decided to play "join the dots' with my photo. I did Scoprius' tail then moved on to Sagittarius. As I started joining the dots there, noticed a merged cluster of stars with a colourful glow around it which I initally dismissed as a very badly deformed stars and artefact from my camera. However, it later came to my realisation that it lined up nicely with the position of the Lagoon Nebula so I decided to zoom right in and queue falling off chair.
There it was, in the centre of my screen, though heavly pixilated, was the Lagoon Nebula!

However on second thoughts, I reaised that it wasn't that spectular (it doesn't actually look like much, and some of its colour is actually off).
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