M20 Trifid Nebula - HaLRGB (Greg Bass)

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

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M20 Trifid Nebula - HaLRGB

I spent a couple nights camping at Mount Laguna this week, 6,000' Bortle 3 sky. For the first night of imaging I wanted to make sure that I came home with data that will produce an impressive image, as the weather for the second night was forecast to be partly cloudy and windy, so I chose the iconic nebula M20.

Not surprisingly I ran into an issue with my equipment that cost an hour's worth of imaging time. It appears to have been a cable issue, because restarting NINA a few times didn't solve the camera download problem, but unplugging the camera USB connector from the camera and laptop and plugging it back in cured it. Once I made that fix, all the automation went smoothly thereafter and I retired to my tent around 12:30am, letting the camera and telescope collect images until sunrise.

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Description: I managed to finally catch Covid, so while quarantining I attempted to improve the look of the stars. I settled on stretching the stars separately from the nebula using PI's Generalized Hyperbolic Stretch script.

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