Michael Rector
Trifid 6-1-14
Here is a quick edit of my image of the Trifid Nebula (M20) from the early morning of June 1. This is 7 images at 5 minutes a piece, ISO 800. I only had 6 dark frames, and used no flat frames (made artificial flat within photoshop).
I took these images while at a small "party" with a few friends. I brought the scope because they wanted to see Saturn and anything else I wanted to point at. Finally around 1:30am I decided to attach the camera and show them what a 5 minute exposure of this object looked like. Shortly after my secondary mirror on my scope started to fog up, so I ended at only a few total images to stack.
Will be revisiting this object in the near future for more data.
Trifid 6-1-14
Here is a quick edit of my image of the Trifid Nebula (M20) from the early morning of June 1. This is 7 images at 5 minutes a piece, ISO 800. I only had 6 dark frames, and used no flat frames (made artificial flat within photoshop).
I took these images while at a small "party" with a few friends. I brought the scope because they wanted to see Saturn and anything else I wanted to point at. Finally around 1:30am I decided to attach the camera and show them what a 5 minute exposure of this object looked like. Shortly after my secondary mirror on my scope started to fog up, so I ended at only a few total images to stack.
Will be revisiting this object in the near future for more data.