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Trifid Nebula

This is the Trifid Nebula, a combination dark nebula and reflection nebula in the constellation of Sagittarius.

 

The blue gas and dust is highlighted by light reflected from the nearby star.

 

In the lower right is the open star cluster Messier 21.

 

This was created with 2 x 8 minute RGB images with an unmodded Canon 70D and Skywatcher ED100 Refractor, stacked in DSS and post processed in Lightroom.

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Uploaded on August 19, 2015