Hello all!
This is a recent data acquisition from the past week in my visit to a local dark site (Sandilands park) - the skies are quite dark here, around Bortle 2, so its well worth the 100 km drive to get out there.
Other images from this series includes these:
Country road skyscape
https://astrob.in/rgvyxu/B/
Aurora:https://astrob.in/yyndpa/C/
And M4:https://astrob.in/awiet7/C/Those images will give you an idea of the dark site and my strategy (avoid the clouds and aurora to the north).
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M20, or NGC 6514) is also known as the Trifid Nebula and Skysafari tells me that its named for its three-lobed appearance. This object is an unusual combination of an open cluster of stars, an emission nebula, a reflection nebula, and a dark nebula that divides the emission nebula into three parts.
Its discovery was not by Messier, but rather by a bloke named Le Gentil ~ 1750. Messier placed it in his catalogue in 1764, and Herschel gave it the name of Trifid nebula. Located in proximity to M8 - the lagoon nebula.
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Other notes: I didn't get much time on this nebula, only 41 subs of 120 seconds, due to clouds, on both nights of July 1 and July 2. This composition is my first multiple night effort. Thanks for reading to the bottom!
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