The M20 Trifid Nebula

REALLY loving being able to shoot DSOs with my 8" Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain. The Celestron Starsense Autoguider is a gamechanger in enabling me to shoot with the 8". GoTo and autoguiding is spot on. Utilizing the BlurXterminator tool in PixInsight during processing just polishes it off. Look at those dust lanes!

 

Discovered by Charles Messier in 1764, M20 is a star-forming nebula located 9,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. Also known as the Trifid Nebula, M20 has an apparent magnitude of 6.3 and can be spotted with a small telescope.

 

Image Details:

- Imaging Scope: Celestron C8 SCT

- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color with ZWO IR cut filter

- Guider: Celestron Starsense Autoguider

- Mount: Celestron CGEM

- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap

- Guiding Software: Celestron

- Light Frames: 25*3 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -10C

- Dark Frames: 10*3 mins

- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom, and Topaz Denoise AI

 

 

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