Clear sky finally graced the monsoon season last night and I could not resist to at least attempting a quick image of a bright and easy-to-find target. I swept the dark sky with binoculars and was quickly attracted to the glow of the Milky Way and the obvious nebulosity of the Lagoon Nebula, M8 in Sagittarius. I opted to use an uncooled Nikon D7000 color camera partly to test its high ISO capabilities and partly to make sure I would be able to still bag an image even if clouds suddenly got in the way, which was simply too risky had I instead used a monochrome camera requiring four filters to image through.
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