M20, the Trifid nebula

[Michael-H]

M20 captured using a 150mm refractor at iTelescope's observatory in New Mexico. It consists of 50 x 300s exposure and was integrated using Pix Insight with some touchup in Lightroom. I hope you like it.

M

[PatrickGilliland]

Hi Michael - certainly have some nice detail there, stars are a little bloated creating a out of focus feel so could work on that a little but good work all round.

 

Paddy

[seo]

Nice final image and work Michael, well done. 

[ollypenrice]

Firstly I think the capture is great. Your investment in telescope time on this could keep you happy for years because I'm certain that there is more buried in the data than we see here. When the blue goes all around the red then you have gone deep, deep enough to push for more colour intensity and more local contrasts. You could chip away at this for ages - and I hope you will.

Olly

[laudropb]

Very nice image.

[symesie04]

love it

[Michael-H]

On 16 July 2016 at 21:35, ollypenrice said:

Firstly I think the capture is great. Your investment in telescope time on this could keep you happy for years because I'm certain that there is more buried in the data than we see here. When the blue goes all around the red then you have gone deep, deep enough to push for more colour intensity and more local contrasts. You could chip away at this for ages - and I hope you will.

Olly

Well, here you are Olly. I got the drizzle integration to work in Pixinsight (it turns out you need to do the full calibration in the program for drizzle to work properly). This is 48x300s with some deconvolution and minus green. I also pushed it more carefully so as not to blow the stars out. It keeps getting better.

M

[swag72]

This is looking great!! Love it!

[johnrt]

Really really splendid work!

[PatrickGilliland]

Yep, second version is very nice well done.  One of those you can play with for days but this is a great version as it stands.

 

Paddy