M8 e M20

Porziano (Perugia) 17/06/2022

Nikon D5300

Nikkor 18-105mm (105mm)

StarAdventurer 2i

f5.6, ISO 800

Light 7x4'

Dark, Bias e Flat

Elaborazione SiriL e Photoshop

The Lagoon and Trifid Nebulas under Bortle 4 skies.

Technical:

-Stock Canon Rebel T7 on Star Adventurer

-135mm Rokinon lens @f/2, ISO 1600 and 25 minute-long exposures stacked in Deep Sky Stacker along with calibration frames (25 bias, 15 flats and no dark frames)

-Total integration time of 25 minutes

-Final stacked image histogram stretched and color-corrected in Photoshop

-Starnet++ used to separate and color-correct star clouds and nebulae in photoshop, final result was merged with stars

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Trifid Nebula reveals a stellar nursery being torn apart by radiation from a nearby, massive star. The picture also provides a peek at embryonic stars forming within an ill-fated cloud of dust and gas, which is destined to be eaten away by the glare from the massive neighbor. This stellar activity is a beautiful example of how the life cycles of stars like our Sun is intimately connected with their more powerful siblings.

The Trifid Nebula is estimated to be around 1,600 light years distant

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Stack of 8766 + 8767 ... Raw ... M20X2-3_Colors ...1024

FSQ-106N, SBig XM2000

Background neutralization