Trifid Nebula M20 Revisit

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

This is not a new image as such. I have been getting some good advice on what settings to employ in the stacking program I use, so I decided to revisit my Trifid Nebula images. I restacked them with new settings and reprocessed the result. Pretty happy with how it looks now so I thought I would share a cropped image of the main nebula region.

You can find my original image here

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