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CapturingTheNight β Trifid Nebula M20 Revisit
Published: 2011-08-13 07:53:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 5598; Favourites: 155; Downloads: 0
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Β© Greg Gibbs. You may not use, replicate, manipulate, or modify this image without my permission. All Rights Reserved.The Trifid Nebula (catalogued as Messier 20 or M20 and as NGC 6514)
This is not a new image as such. I have been getting some good advice on what settings to employ in the stacking program I use, so I decided to revisit my Trifid Nebula images. I restacked them with new settings and reprocessed the result. Pretty happy with how it looks now so I thought I would share a cropped image of the main nebula region.
You can find my original image here
28/06/2011
Canon EOS 1000D
Baader Coma Corrector
10 inch (25cm) F/4 Newtonian Reflector Telescope
NEQ6 PRO Computerised Goto Mount
Orion 80mm ShortTube Guide Scope
Synguider Autoguider
16X 4 minute exposures plus 31X 2 minutes exposures
ISO 400
Images stacked and alligned in Deep Sky Stacker
Final processing in Photoshop Elements 8.0
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I really like the enhanced contrast since it brings up the faintest stars and some of the delicate structure in the whole nebula. Β
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Thank you so muchΒ
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You're welcome. Β
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I almost just want to favorite every picture to save me the trouble of ogling at each one and probably spamming your inbox with favs and comments.
They are all that pretty.
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Thank you so much
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Fascinating, you captured a nebula with a mere camera?
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Thank you 
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This has been featured in my latest journal: [link]
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You're welcome!
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Absolutely my pleasure, Greg!
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so much goes into what you do - has to blow your mind when you get the results - kudos man on a job very well done
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Thank you so much Jon
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Very welcome. Keep up the great work
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Nebula are some of the most fascinating photographs of the sky. You did well on this one. The colours come through very nicely giving this one a look like two flowers opening in the sky.
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Thank you very much for the great feedback
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Cheers. Thanks Shaun
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Thank you very much
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It looks like the leftovers of two supernovas who collide rather than a nebual.
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Could be? The dust from star forming nebula like this has to come from somewhere. I'm trying to learn a bit about what I photograph, but most of the time I'm flat out trying to learn how to photograph them
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Well, I can only use Wikipedia and BBC for educating myself. I once read that nebulas of Supernovas consist of mostly heavy elements. A cloud made out of iron-particles...I can't even imagine what it would look like from up-close!
BTW: Are you still on Shadowness? For some odd reason it doesn't seem to work properly anmore, at least not when I'm using it.
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Yeah, I'm still there. I uploaded two shots yesterday but before that I didn't do much on there for a while. I have noticed that the general activity has slowed a lot, but as I said I put that down to me not being really active. ?????????? Works fine for me when I'm on.
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Well, the last two photos I uploaded weren't even noticed at all. They don't even show up in the "What's new" folder.
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The honeymoon may be over as well, and people are moving on a bit.
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Sheezyart 2.0 I guess.
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