M20 - Trifid

[carlstronomy (Carl)]

Been a while since I have posted any images, so as seem as the skies have been so clear this week I took some pictures and crunched some data

Hope you like, I might tune up my Meade SN-10 and start taking more images.

80% of 495x 1min lights (ISO 800)
darks, flats and bias also used all stacked in DSS.

Cleaned up and adjusted in PS using Astronomy Tools.

Equipment
Canon 700D, this is my first use as I upgraded from my 450D last month.
Baader MPCC MK III
Bintel 8" Newtonian (finely tuned, took some time)
NEQ6 Pro with belt upgrade, PHD2 guiding

[Anth10 (Anthony M)]

Nice work Carl,
Very smooth and almost no noise - that’s what plenty of subs will do! ✅great image with plenty of star colour and fine nebulosity.
Anthony.

[AstroViking (Steve)]

What Anthony said - lots of great colour in there, and you can see all the subtle shading in the gas/dust clouds.

Great effort.

[Doogs38 (Alex)]

Beautiful image, Carl. Rich colour (in the stars too), subtle detail and nice framing. Bet it took a while to crunch 495 subs! Alex

[oska (John)]

Very nice Carl. Great depth, very well done. Dem Big Stacks!
Looking forward to the mighty SN10

[carlstronomy (Carl)]

Thank you for your kind words John, Alex, Steve and Anthony. I have to keep my subs short for light pollution in amp glow Brisbane. Data is data and I noticed the detail change from day 3 to day 4. It took those first 300 subs until the detail really popped

Alex, not too bad. About 30 minutes as I use my beast gaming computer to do the crunching, I think my astro computer would take a while

Clear Skies

[xelasnave]

Great image. Well done.
Alex

[Cyberman (Rob)]

That's a great trifid. Lot of data does make a difference with DSLRs.
Cheers,Rob