Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Sagittarius (Sgr)  ·  Contains:  11 Sgr  ·  IC 1274  ·  IC 4685  ·  Lagoon Nebula  ·  M 20  ·  M 21  ·  M 8  ·  NGC 6514  ·  NGC 6523  ·  NGC 6526  ·  NGC 6530  ·  NGC 6531  ·  NGC 6544  ·  NGC 6546  ·  NGC 6559  ·  The star 1 Sgr  ·  The star 12 Sgr  ·  The star 4 Sgr  ·  The star 5 Sgr  ·  The star 7 Sgr  ·  The star 9 Sgr  ·  Trifid Nebula
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Lagoon & Trifid, Wayne
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Lagoon & Trifid

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Lagoon & Trifid

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The Trifid Nebula has been one of my favorite nebulas and I've been eager to image it and it's neighbors ever since since I bought my 70mm refractor and realized it had a great FOV to cover them nicely.

  I shot the RGB data from my Bortle 5 (mag 20.05) backyard but due to the low altitude I was imaging through the light dome from a Bortle 8 20 - 25 miles south of me. Because of this light dome I drove to Mt Pinos, a Bortle 4 darksite, to collect luminance. Unfortunately the trees at the south edge of the lot limited target visibility to about 4 hours but at least the light pollution on the southern horizon was considerably less allowing for some great lum data.

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Lagoon & Trifid, Wayne