M20 The Triffid Nebula

[Carl]

Located in the constellation of Sagittarius

I always think of the Ray Bradbury book Day of the Triffids

Taken from my home in Nth East Vic during July. Skies were pretty awful at my place that month, but it sure beats sitting inside watching TV.

Details:
34 x 5min @ 1600iso
Scope: ED120
Camera: canon 500d
Processing: Nebulosity3 and PhotoshopCS5

Image dramatically reduced to upload.

Regards
Carl

[CapturingTheNight (Greg)]

Another great image Carl I just noticed the time that you uploaded these. I take it you also had spectacular sky conditions down there as well. What target can I expect to be wowed by at a future ASAW meeting?

[multiweb (Marc)]

Another one! You're on a roll. Very nice again.

[alpal]

The blue reflection nebula has come out well.
Another fine photo.

[troypiggo (Troy)]

What I'm noticing in all of these images you're posting is a wonderfully flat field of stars. What flattener are you using? And your guiding seems to be very good, too! Great stuff!

[RickS (Rick)]

Nice image, Carl, but it was John Wyndham who wrote Day of the Triffids

[Ross G]

Hi Carl,

That is a beautiful photo of the Trifid Nebula.

Great colours and detail.

A very nice composition.

Ross.

[DavidU (Dave)]

Well done Carl. Nice work with the colours.

[Carl]

Originally Posted by RickS

Nice image, Carl, but it was John Wyndham who wrote Day of the Triffids

I've always been hopeless with Authors names. Great book though, terrible TV version

regards
Carl

[Carl]

Originally Posted by obsidianphotos

Another great image Carl I just noticed the time that you uploaded these. I take it you also had spectacular sky conditions down there as well. What target can I expect to be wowed by at a future ASAW meeting?

Hi Greg
thanks for the post. I'm trying to image M8, the Lagoon Nebula but focusing over the last 3 nights has been hopeless.

Catch up soon
Carl

[David Fitz-Henr]

Great image Carl! Great colours, and with a DSLR as well - is it modded for Ha?

[Rigel003 (Graeme)]

Excellent image, Carl. Especially so with an SLR and only 120mm of aperture. Nice tight stars with plenty of colour variation and good detail in the nebula.

[cventer]

Great Job. Very nice work on processing and color saturation.

[Carl]

Originally Posted by troypiggo

What I'm noticing in all of these images you're posting is a wonderfully flat field of stars. What flattener are you using? And your guiding seems to be very good, too! Great stuff!

Hi Troy
Sorry for the delay getting back, lots on at the moment.
I'm using the Hotech 2" field flattener. Got for $200 at OPT in the US

Regards
Carl