M20 - The Trifid Nebula (Cosgrove's Cosmos (Patrick Cosgrove))

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Sagittarius (Sgr) · Contains: B85 · M 20 · M 21 · NGC 6514 · NGC 6531 · Sh2-30 · Trifid Nebula

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M20 - The Trifid Nebula

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M20 - The Trifid Nebula

Messier 20, commonly know as the Trifid Nebula, is a Hydrogen II region in Sagittarius that is located about 5000 light years from earth. The name "Trifid" means "divided into three lobes" and this describes the impression when seen visually in a Telescope. This object is a combination of an open cluster of stars, an emission nebula (the red portion) and a reflection nebula (the blue portion), making it a rich target for astrophotography. The dark lanes are concentrations of dust and gas that form nurseries for the formation of new stars.

This is my first attempt on M20 and is the result of 27 stacked images of two minutes each. It was a very windy evening and my guiding was the worse I have ever seen, but my star images still came out pretty round so I appear to have gotten away with it!

Shot with a William Optics 132mm FLT APO refractor on a IOptron CEM60 mount. Camera was a ZWO ASI294MC-Pro. 30 Dark, 45 flat, and 45 bias calibration exposures. Processed via DeepSky Stacker, Pixinsight and Photoshop. This is preliminary processing to assess last nights capture. I will more carefully reprocess this on a cloudy night!

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	3598554
PixInsight job	FCTL5ZGUYOZI6NQN665AKJ53HCBGF3LZ
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PixInsight stage	n/a

RA (center)	18h03m12s.21
RA (top/left)	18h00m48s.45
RA (top/right)	18h02m09s.78
RA (bottom/right)	18h05m36s.90
RA (bottom/left)	18h04m14s.50

Dec (center)	-22°53′12″.8
Dec (top/left)	-22°24′40″.1
Dec (top/right)	-23°34′35″.9
Dec (bottom/right)	-23°21′38″.5
Dec (bottom/left)	-22°11′50″.2

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