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Photographer:

Jared-Bowens

Location of Photo:

Northwest Missouri

Date/Time of photo:

8-31-2022

Equipment:

canon 60d unmodified using a 8" inch orion newtonian f3.9 astrograph, starshoot autoguider 60mm guide scope all on a Celestron AVX mount

Description:

Just north-west of Sagittarius is M20 the Trifid nebula in the Milky ways Scutum-Centaurus arm, this area is a combination of three nebula types. The large reddish pink area shine by its own emissions. The blues are reflected dust from nearby starlight, and a dark nebula (the apparent 'gaps' in the former that cause the trifurcated appearance, also designated Barnard 85) 5 hours of 4 minutes subs ISO-1250 taken with a canon 60d unmodified using a 8" inch orion newtonian f3.9 astrograph, starshoot autoguider 60mm guide scope all on a Celestron AVX mount Processing registered and stacking in DSS pixlinsight: dynamic crop, Dynamic Background exct, non linear stretch in histogram tran, exponential transformation, local histogram equalization, deconvolution, added a mask used curves, for saturation’s, star mask-morphological transformation. Photoshop: levels adjustments, unsharp mask, contrast, levels.

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