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Messier 88 views2006-08-16 21:56:00 M8 Lagoon Nebula 15x70 Celestron SkyMaster Binoculars 4.4° field of view 15 Moon hadn't risen yet. Good night for viewing. To see objects in this direction, I had to be in my front yard looking over my house and the trees behind it. This had the disadvantage of streetlights and car headlights, as well as neighbors' entry lights. Still, the objects I looked at tonight were bright enough to show through. My next-door neighbor's motion sensor lights were on only a few minutes this night, happily. Sagittarius is a great place to find Messier objects, except for being in a hard-to-view section of the sky where I live. Lagoon Nebula M8 reminded me of Orion's sword. I saw two optical doubles and a single, each surrounded by bright bluish-white nebulosity. This one was particularly beautiful. The two nebulosities on the left had comet-like tails pointing toward the southwest, while the one on the right was elliptical in the east-west direction, with maybe a slight bulge toward the northwest. M20 and M21 are visible in the same field of view.
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