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M8 & M20, The Lagoon & Trifid Nebulae, Bryce Zuccaro
M8 & M20, The Lagoon & Trifid Nebulae
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M8 & M20, The Lagoon & Trifid Nebulae

M8 & M20, The Lagoon & Trifid Nebulae, Bryce Zuccaro
M8 & M20, The Lagoon & Trifid Nebulae
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M8 & M20, The Lagoon & Trifid Nebulae

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Description

M8 & M20, taken from a friends cabin in the woods on 7/13/18. It was nice to be able to go to sleep for once without having to drive a couple hours to get back home. This was my first time using this set of equipment and processing workflow, so any criticism is greatly appreciated.

Subs: 13x540s Lights; 9x540s Darks; 20 Flats; 200 Bias

Equipment:

• Scope: Meade Series 6000 115mm APO

• Mount: Celestron CGEM

• Camera: Sony a7rii (unmodified)

• Autoguider: Starshoot OAG w/ 80mm scope

• Celestron Starsense

• Hotech Field Flattener

• Polemaster

Process:

• Stacked and processed in Pixinsight using light vortex tutorials as guides

• AutomaticBackgroundExtractor

• BackgroundNeutralization

• ColorCalibration

• SCNR

• TGVDenoise

• MultiscaleMedianTransform

• Deconvolution

• Resample

• HistogramTransform

• ACDCNR

• MorphologicalTransform for shrinking stars

• CurvesTransform

• DarkStructureEnhance

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M8 & M20, The Lagoon & Trifid Nebulae, Bryce Zuccaro