# Lagoon Nebula (ESO)

- By: ESO/S. Guisard
- Date: 2009-09-28
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: ESO (direct link)
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lagoon_Nebula_(ESO).jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Lagoon_Nebula_%28ESO%29.jpg/1920px-Lagoon_Nebula_%28ESO%29.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

An amazing vista of the Lagoon Nebula taken with the 67-million-pixel Wide Field Imager attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The image covers more than one and a half square degree— an area eight times larger than that of the Full Moon — with a total of about 370 million pixels. It is based on images acquired using three different broadband filters (B, V, R) and one narrow-band filter (H-alpha).