Trifid Nebula - maybe last hurrah for a few months

[split_city]

With the birth of the second child just around the corner for my wife and I, I have been trying to get as much imaging done as possible as I'm unsure how often I will be able to get outside over the next few months.

I only got an hour of the Trifid last night. Pretty happy with how it's come up.

Details

Scope: 8" Newt

Camera: unmodded canon 400D

Settings: 12x5mins @ ISO800

Darks, flats and lights stacked in DSS and post processing done in Photoshop.

Picture here

[cloudbuster]

super detail, subtle colours....cracking image!.....oh....and congratulations....hope the birth goes well!

[split_city]

Thanks for the comments . I just had to edit my initial post as it made me sound like I was the one giving birth

[Gina]

Hope all goes well And congratulations on an excellent image - well done

[jgs001]

Hope all goes well, and that's a lovely image to finish with before hand

If you want to embed the image, click on the share button at the top of the image page, select the Grab HTML/BBCode option, set to BBCode, select a size and cut and paste the contents of the box... you'll get something like..

Trifid Nebula by split-city, on Flickr

[jsigone]

very nice image!!!

[peter shah]

Beautiful.....its just out of my reach but one i want to image:cool:

[split_city]

Thanks for the comments and thanks for the tip John. Eeek, I can see the flaws in the background in that image. Probably slightly over stretched it, plus it's only an hour worth of data.

[Yoddha]

Great image! Very deep I really hope to image it this year...

[AndyUK]

This is a great result for only an hour's worth of data! However, like Pete, this is one I'd like to get, but I fear will always be a little low for me

[i must be doing something wrong somewhere as I seem to need to get at least 6 hours data with my CCD before I can start doing battle with the noise... and then I see this taken with just and hour using a DSLR ]

And good luck with the new arrival! One of the good things with baby's is that they give you an excuse for staying up all night without being moaned at

[Quatermass]

Lovely jubbly I really want to have a go at this one but holding out for July when it will be in the right place for me to have a crack at it. Or I might just go out in the car to hunt this one down, amazing nebula

[split_city]

Thanks guys. Maybe you should come down to Australia and you can image the entire Scorpius/Sagittarius regions.....oh, don't forget the Carina Nebula

[ollypenrice]

Very nice. Not tempting fate, are you, with the Trifid? (Triplets??? Eek.)

I can get this nicely from Lat 44 in southern France but the lovely Rho region is just too low.

Good luck to all on the big day.

Olly

[Viv]

lovely image.

Good luck, for the forthcoming delivery

[alpal]

That is a nice shot.

I think even more detail could be obtained with further processing.

[split_city]

Cheers.

haha, no triplets! Just the one little girl coming. Already have a 2 year old boy so happy to have one of both.

Added another 1hr 40mins of data.

%20Trifid%20Nebula%20V2%20by%20split-city,%20on%20Flickr"] Trifid Nebula V2 by split-city, on Flickr

[Gina]

WOW! That's beautiful

[alpal]

You've done better now - that's a real crowd pleaser.

[AndyUK]

The extra data has certainly enabled you to bring out more colour and detail with less noise - Again, you must be really pleased with this...

[ollypenrice]

Huge improvement on what was already good. The best Trifids are fully encircled in blue, as seen here. Dynamic range is good too. Often the red ends up rather flat and featureless.

Olly

[split_city]

Thanks everyone.

I'm going to go down the route of my previous image and convert the RGB to grayscale and see what I can dig out of the resulting pseudo luminance.

However, our little girl (Charlotte) arrived this morning so I have more important priorities at the moment

[AndyUK]

Oh wow - Congratulations....!!!! . All those sleepless nights undertaking Astro-imaging will have given you VERY good practice for what's to come... :)

[Gina]

Congratulations from me too That's lovely - hope mother and daughter are both doing well

[ncjunk]

very nice image for only an hour.

Congrats on the little girl! I have a boy of 3 and girl of 9 months so the same as you....its a lot more tiring with two. I'm glad i dont have 5 or 6 kids as i cant cope with 2!

[split_city]

Thanks again for the well wishes. 24hours down and everything is going well.

Andy: we already have a 2 year old so I'm used to sleepless nights. Trying to juggle astrophotography and parenting roles can be a bit of a handful. Many nights of sleep deprivation. I can't wait for the day where I can do an overnight imaging run and sleep the following day. Will be a llllooonnnggg time before that happens!