A galactic snapshot
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These two images of the bright Omega Nebula M17 and Lagoon Nebula M8 below prove that is not always mandatory to spend many hours to obtain interesting astronomical images.
Both originate from the work on my normalized Messier catalog and were exposed for only one hour in LRGB. So if you are searching for a fast target to image, you indeed should check out the relatively bright Messier objects.