M 20 Trifid Nebula LRGB battling the Wind (Brandon Tackett)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Sagittarius (Sgr) · Contains: B85 · LBN 27 · M 20 · NGC 6514 · Trifid Nebula

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M 20 Trifid Nebula LRGB battling the Wind

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M 20 Trifid Nebula LRGB battling the Wind

More details to come, but on the first night where the weather, seeing, and wind were ideal I managed to collect a grand total of 6 images to due a comedy of errors and technical difficulties. Night number two, worsening wind with 10-12 out of the direction I can see the Trifid Nebula. Had to scrap half the subframes including all but 6 Green subs.

The results is okay, but I need to move on to other projects with almost 50% moon. I will come back for a better run at the Trifid at some point.

I did have a great night seeing what the night sky has to offer though: A beautiful start to a Sunday morning. Things I was able to see with my own two eyes of creation over the night: 1. A waxing crescent moon 2. Comet neowise 3. Jupiter 4. Saturn 5. Mars 6. Venus 7. Mercury (first time) 8. The Milky Way. 9. The pleiades open cluster. 10. Tridid neubula astrophotography with the telescope. Only two things I didn't look at were another galaxy and a globular cluster.

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Description: Complete redo edit with new green filter data

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Description: Trying to finding a better color balance

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Title: Dec 2022 Redo Edit

Description: Always like this object, but it was early on in my processing a ability. Wanted to give another whirl with new techniques and tools

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RA (center)	18h02m22s.701
RA (top/left)	18h03m21s.931
RA (top/right)	18h01m36s.910
RA (bottom/right)	18h01m23s.242
RA (bottom/left)	18h03m08s.714

Dec (center)	-22°58′16″.98
Dec (top/left)	-22°42′50″.23
Dec (top/right)	-22°40′34″.76
Dec (bottom/right)	-23°13′41″.43
Dec (bottom/left)	-23°15′55″.73

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