m20

[alacant]

Hi everyone

The heat is with us once again and the galaxies are rapidly going west. Set the scheduler to swing over to Sagittarius after a foray into Virgo for m104 earlier but miscalculated the time the latter would take. Ended up with M20 an hour or so past the meridian with less than 2 hours before dawn.

So with the excuses over, this was another step on the road out of the 1990's. This time with DarkTable. The masks are nice.

Thanks for looking and do please post your versions of m20.

700d @ ISO800

[Adam1234]

Lovely image

[Craney]

Agreed.   Loving the offset between the red and blue  parts of the nebula.

 

[MarkAR]

Superb, lovely colour balance.

[Anthony1979]

Would love to get images like these.... Nice

[des anderson]

A big thumb`s up from me. Des

[ollypenrice]

That's nice and it's well balanced. As ever, it's just a matter of time. With more data you'd find the reflection nebulosity would grow to surround the Ha, the golden milky way would glow more strongly and you'd be able to sharpen the details in the gasses. You clearly can capture enough to make this into something special from your latitude. Why not go for it?

I've never done a high resolution Trifid, only ever a widefield with the other components of the Sagittarius Triplet, but I'd like to do so because it is one of the most beautiful nebulae in the sky.

Olly