Trifid

[kosborn]

After a long hiatus due to moving house it's nice to be out under the skies again (skies that are darker and less obstructed than the previous house :)).

This was 5.1 hours of LRGB with the Sidereal Newtonian.

As a broadband target (being bright and commonly imaged) this is not the most difficult or the most obscure, but was still satisfying to image especially after a long break. I tried to keep as much faint dust and reflection nebulosity as I could, but probably at the expense of image contrast. Suggestions for better processing are certainly welcome (bigger image on Astrobin). (https://www.astrobin.com/full/413173/0/)


Kevin

[strongmanmike]

Excellent image of the Trifid Kevin, well balaced brightness and colour. Back with a bang, I'd say :thumbsup:

Mike

[Placidus]

Quite lovely.

Reflection nebulosity captured very nicely. That gets lost in narrowband.

[Slawomir]

Very nice image Kevin, the high resolution is well worth exploring :thumbsup:

[kosborn]

Thank you all for the comments.

What I enjoyed the most was there are no annoying neighbours at my new house who leave their outside lights on all night and therefore no ugly gradients. I didn't need to do any background extraction. Processing was little more than photometric colour calibration and noise reduction on rgb, gentle convolution on lum, then a lrgb combination with a bit of fiddling with curves.

I like the Trifid in rgb but I'm looking forward to seeing what comes of the two pending deep narrowband versions of the Trifid that will emerge soon in this forum... :D

Kevin

[Slawomir]

It is fantastic that at your now house you have more conducive conditions to astro Kevin. I also prefer the RGB versions of the Trifid, so hopefully once the skies will clear up, the narrowband versions will show Trifid in a different light without making it look ugly :prey:

[The_bluester]

Seems everyone is doing the Trifid at the moment. I can see more wrinkles in the reflection nebulosity in mine but the colour in yours is much nicer.