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The Northern Trifid in RGB, Tom Dinneen
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The Northern Trifid in RGB

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The Northern Trifid in RGB

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NGC1579 - The Northern Trifid in RGB (with synthetic luminance). Which is a refelction nebula in Perseus and part of the California Molecular Cloud.
2 hrs of Red and Green and just one hour of Blue due to clouds. Taken with my 5" refractor and 0.7x reducer (focal length of 625mm at f/5.25) and ASI2600MM with RGB filters from a remote observatory in Northern Spain (Bortle 3).

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The Northern Trifid in RGB, Tom Dinneen