Trifid Nebula - maybe last hurrah for a few months

[AndyUK]

Sleep is for wimps.... (zzzzz) . My body clock has been SO corrupted over the last week I'm no longer sure what day it is, let alone what time! Last night was cloudy anyway, but I had intended to have a look about 10am just in case. Unfortunately I fell asleep at just gone 9pm, and woke up on the settee at 7am this morning...

[split_city]

Spent a bit more time processing my pseudo luminance channel and combined it with the the colour data. I'm really liking this method as noise has been reduced in the fainter outer regions of the reflection nebula but detail is still preserved. Not bad for 2hrs worth of data. Hopefully I can collect a few more hours in a couple of months time.

Trifid Nebula V3 by split-city, on Flickr

[Gina]

That's lovely

[Mr Spock]

Great image

[badgers]

Congratulations to both of you.

I'm guessing it was cloudy 9 months or so ago