Trifid Nebula

[sjastro]

Added colour to my recent Trifid image.
2 hrs L, 1 hr R, 1 hr G, 1 hr B.

Now I'll go back to more obscure imaging.

Higher resolution image.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~sjastro/Trifidnew.html

Clear skies

Steven

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Nice trifid, Steven

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

That is super nice

Jo

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

That's beautiful, you nabbed some good resolution there.
Is there a UV version coming up?

[sjastro]

Originally Posted by SkyViking

That's beautiful, you nabbed some good resolution there.
Is there a UV version coming up?

A 120 hr exposure in UV should do the trick Rolf.

Originally Posted by nebulosity.

That is super nice

Jo

Thanks Jo.

Originally Posted by Larryp

Nice trifid, Steven

Thank you Larry.

Clear skies

Steven

[multiweb (Marc)]

Great field Steven. Love the colours. You've picked up a lot of faint background neb as well.

[LightningNZ (Cam)]

Geez that's smashing. I don't think I've so much of the faint background captured before.

Beautiful.

-Cam

[E_ri_k (Erik)]

Really nice Steven. Great colours and details. Dusty bits look great too

Erik

[DavidU (Dave)]

Excellent !! very natural look to it.

[LewisM]

I love the depth of it, but a question: did you "tone down" the star field? I haven't imaged the Trifid for a LONG while now but seem to remember a lot more of a star field.

The depth and clarity of the nebulosity is amazing, right down to the tiny tendrils of H-a nebulosity around a lower star.

[apaulo (Paul)]

I really like that image. A natural and well balanced representation of this object. Well done
Paul.

[RickS (Rick)]

Very nice, Steven.

[sjastro]

Originally Posted by RickS

Very nice, Steven.

Thanks Rick.

Originally Posted by apaulo

I really like that image. A natural and well balanced representation of this object. Well done
Paul.

Thanks Paul.

Originally Posted by LewisM

I love the depth of it, but a question: did you "tone down" the star field? I haven't imaged the Trifid for a LONG while now but seem to remember a lot more of a star field.

The depth and clarity of the nebulosity is amazing, right down to the tiny tendrils of H-a nebulosity around a lower star.

Lewis,

I used a morphological transformation in PI to slightly reduce the star sizes to make the background nebulosity more apparent.

Originally Posted by DavidU

Excellent !! very natural look to it.

Glad you liked it David.

Originally Posted by E_ri_k

Really nice Steven. Great colours and details. Dusty bits look great too

Erik

The dusty areas turned out beter than expected.
Regards

Steven

Originally Posted by LightningNZ

Geez that's smashing. I don't think I've so much of the faint background captured before.

Beautiful.

-Cam

Cam,

The pixelmath used to process the Lagoon image was also used here.

Regards

Steven

Originally Posted by multiweb

Great field Steven. Love the colours. You've picked up a lot of faint background neb as well.

Thanks for your comment Marc.

Clear skies

Steven

[Shiraz (Ray)]

really nice image Steven - high resolution and a lot of detail in the darker regions. regards Ray

[gregbradley]

A very fine image Steven.

Greg.

[sjastro]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

A very fine image Steven.

Greg.

Originally Posted by Shiraz

really nice image Steven - high resolution and a lot of detail in the darker regions. regards Ray

Thanks Greg and Ray for your comments.

Regards

Steven

[White Rabbit]

Nice one. The blue neb on the top pops really nicely.

Cheers

[alpal]

Hi Steven,
Another fine image from the BRC-250 scope.
It's really performing well - sharp stars right to the corners.
The detail at the center shows you had good seeing & were able to take full advantage of it.
The processing looks very natural.

cheers
Allan

[sjastro]

Originally Posted by alpal

Hi Steven,
Another fine image from the BRC-250 scope.
It's really performing well - sharp stars right to the corners.
The detail at the center shows you had good seeing & were able to take full advantage of it.
The processing looks very natural.

cheers
Allan

Thank you Allan.
The image has been rotated and heavily cropped, but the original is reasonably flat.
Issues with elongated stars is due to flexure rather than the BRC-250 optics. The STXL-11002 is a very heavy camera.

Originally Posted by White Rabbit

Nice one. The blue neb on the top pops really nicely.

Cheers

Thanks White Rabbit.

[Ross G]

A great looking photo Steven.

Ross.