Attempt no3 of M20 trifid Neb

[Garyh]

Hi all again,..
At last the seeing last night was much better than it has been for over a month now so I decided to set up and cross my fingers that the cloud up north and south would not pay a visit! Well they did and bought along some light showers as well. But before I had to pack up quickly I managed to get a bunch of M20 again (have been trying to get a nice M20 for months now) or anything through the scope!!!.
Seeing was average (best for 2 months here) but very transparent..
Image is 11 x 4min , DFs removed and taken with my newt and 300D.
Still a bit noisey after pushing it, another 10 images to stack would be have been nice!! oh-well next time!!
This is my best M20 shot so far...
All comments welcome!!
cheers and CS everyone!!!

[browndog (Ian)]

Wow - Great image Gary. Really nice colours, I like it a lot.

I am not sure about all of the star diffraction spikes though..??? I like the large star diffraction spike but some of the small stars within the nebular are showing smaller spikes as well. Just my opinion .

[Ric]

A great image Gary, everything is nice and sharp and the nebula itself has lovely colour and showing some nice depth to it as well.

Cheers

[h0ughy (David)]

nice, like the work done to get it

[bluescope]

I like it Gary !

[dcalleja]

Gary
Beautiful image. I don't mind the spikes.

[Tamtarn]

You should be very happy with that image Gary, looks great.

Agree with Dan, don't mind the spikes at all

[jase (Jason)]

Gary, Your persistence has provided a most pleasurable view of this nebula. It is well processed and exhibits good colour balance. Well done.

[RB (Andrew)]

Beautiful shot Gary, I love it !

[Garyh]

Thanks everyone for all the comments.....
I am quiet happy with my color balance and saturation.
Not much I can do about the diffraction spikes unless I get a curved spider, but I rather like some in the image!!
All I could ask out of it was better seeing for tighter stars and a little more detail..but this weather is a little out of my control!!
Lets all hope this jetstream goes somewhere else... to give us desperate images a break!! I would hate to try any planetary imaging in these conditions.. It would drive you nuts..
cheers and CS everyone....

[iceman (Mike)]

What a ripper, a textbook view of that beautiful object.

Well done Gary, very smooth.

[Octane (Humayun)]

Gary,

That is simply magnificent.

From the beautiful star colours to the very subtle processing of the nebula (including the background), it is a stunner of an image.

Well done!

Regards,
Humayun

[Garyh]

Thanks Mike and Humayun!! for that
Hope your eye is better now Mike!, I know our little girl has a fascination for eyes and is always poking the poor dog in the eye!!
cheers

[Dr Nick (Nick)]

Beauty! I'll try for this one when I get clear skies for once...

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Gary, that is absolutely beautiful!

You have captured all the detail, and the processing is excellent. Well done