Trifid Nebula M20

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The Trifid Nebula (catalogued as Messier 20 or M20 and as NGC 6514)

I have been very lucky to have great astrophotography weather here over the last four days. This will be the last picture for at least a couple of days, looking at the forecast.

I would love to know if anyone has a request for a Deep Space Object. I'm always up for a challenge.

28/06/2011
Canon EOS 1000D
Baader Coma Corrector
10 inch (25cm) F/4 Newtonian Reflector Telescope
NEQ6 PRO Computerised Goto Mount
Orion 80mm ShortTube Guide Scope
Synguider Autoguider
16X 4 minute exposures plus 31X 2 minutes exposures
ISO 400
Images stacked and alligned in Deep Sky Stacker
Final processing in Photoshop Elements 8.0

This Nebula is close to the Lagoon Nebula