Imaging telescopes or lenses: Astro-Tech AT8RC
Imaging cameras: ZWO ASI183MM-Pro
Mounts: iOptron iEQ45 Pro
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Astro-Tech AT8RC
Guiding cameras: QHYCCD QHY5-III 178M
Software: PhD2 · StarTools · Deep Sky Stacker (DSS) · Photoshop CC · Astro Photography Tool - APT Astro Photography Tool
Filters: ZWO new B · ZWO new G · ZWO new R · ZWO new L
Accessory: ZWO EAF · ZWO EFW Mini · Teleskop Service TSFLIP Flip Mirror and Off Axis Guiding System
Dates:Aug. 21, 2020
Frames:
ZWO new B: 1x300" (gain: 100.00) -5C bin 2x2
ZWO new B: 1x60" (gain: 100.00) -5C bin 2x2
ZWO new G: 2x300" (gain: 100.00) -5C bin 2x2
ZWO new G: 1x60" (gain: 100.00) -5C bin 2x2
ZWO new L: 2x300" (gain: 100.00) -5C bin 2x2
ZWO new L: 2x60" (gain: 100.00) -5C bin 2x2
ZWO new R: 2x300" (gain: 100.00) -5C bin 2x2
ZWO new R: 1x60" (gain: 100.00) -5C bin 2x2
Integration: 0.7 hours
Darks: ~48
Avg. Moon age: 2.70 days
Avg. Moon phase: 8.02%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 4.00
Astrometry.net job: 3916909
RA center: 18h 2' 26"
DEC center: -22° 57' 37"
Pixel scale: 0.614 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 109.225 degrees
Field radius: 0.276 degrees
Resolution: 2696x1786
Locations: Champaign-Urbana Astronomical Society dark site, Champaign, IL, United States
Data source: Traveller
M20, the Trifid Nebula. I love the Trifid for the obvious colors, but also the nice dust lanes and globules and what looks like a V-shaped bow shock feature in the emission part of the nebula.
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