20 hours of Trifid HaLRGB

[furgle (Adam)]

Almost everyone has a go at imaging the Trifid nebula, which is composed of 3 different type of nebulae; emission, reflection, and absorption. When I noticed some very faint red glow in the background, I decided to try integrating some long hydrogen emission line frames to see if I could get any structure out of it. I'm quite happy with the resulting background structure.

Full resolution here

[Atmos (Colin)]

Looks real nice Adam. I do agree, there is some fascinating nebulae structure in the background.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Yeah, nice structures, really nice work Adam

Mike

[codemonkey (Lee)]

Nice work! Those 20hrs really brought out that background nebulosity very well indeed.

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Nicely done indeed! You don't often see such detail in the background structure of the Trifid.

Cheers

Steve

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Your experiment worked magnificently!

The faint background stuff has a very interesting texture, like the cut surface of a lung perhaps.

[Paul Haese]

You picked up the background very well Adam. I found it easier to pick this up with the wide field setup than the long focal length setup.

[furgle (Adam)]

Thanks everyone

" I found it easier to pick this up with the wide field setup than the long focal length setup. "

For me 900 is wide . My other focal lengths are 1960 and 2800!