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Messier 20 - the Trifid Nebula, benjamin_werner
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Messier 20 - the Trifid Nebula

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Messier 20 - the Trifid Nebula

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This picture shows the well-known Trifid Nebula, Messier 20. It was taken during my stay at Hakos in May this year.
Actually, Messier 20 is one of my favourite nebulas because it combines every form of nebula, emission-, reflection- and dark nebula.
The instrument used was the 12" f/3.3 Deltagraph of the WAA Southern Observatory. Unfortunately, the less than ideal instrument caused a few reflections to creep in as well quite a lot of image tilt.
The image is a LRGB image with 15x180s each RGB channel and 19x180s luminance. I hope you still like the picture a bit ;-)

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Messier 20 - the Trifid Nebula, benjamin_werner