Thanks everyone for the comments and compliments.
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Originally Posted by Placidus
A beautiful image Paul. As others have said, the colours of both stars and nebulosity are very engaging.
We've only ever done it in H-alpha, where the most notable feature was the burned and blackened "gum" tree, if you'll excuse the pun. Your combined LRGB is far more interesting. Well done!
Best,
Mike
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Thanks Mike, whilst the Ha data does help in this image I think the real guts of it is in the LRGB data. Normally this is not the case but in this instance that seems that the predominant detail is coming from the luminance and blue channels. I remember thinking when I imaged it last time that it needed a larger scale to show off some of the finer detail better.
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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Really well done Gum 15 Paul. Nicely processed and some faint blue streaks of gas that I hadn't noticed before.
Greg.
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Thanks Greg, both the luminance and blue channels have lots of interesting streaks in them. I was happy to see that I replicated the image only to a larger scale than previously. It does look very similar to the Trifid and has some really interesting aspects to it than other nebulae just don't. Those streaks look similar to the ones in NGC6559 near the Lagoon Nebula. I imagine if Jay Gabany imaged it the detail would look more enhanced than my version.