Michael A. Stecker
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M20 Trifid Nebula
The Trifid Nebula (M20) are adjacent red emission and blue reflection nebulae in the Sagittarius Milky Way, This is a joint collaboration where James Foster photographed, stacked and did preliminary processing on the image taken in Frazier Park California and Michael Stecker did the post-processing from Los Angeles. A Sky-Watcher 250P, 10-inch f/4 Newtonian, telescope was used. file: M20-JRF-SWnewt250P-110minRGBSHARP3A-cr-usm1.jpg Photographic Data telescope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P, 10-inch f/4 Newtonian telescope with coma corrector Focal Length: 1,000 mm
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Astro-Physics 1200 GTO imaging camera: ZWO ASI2600MC-Pro color astro-camera. exposures: 300 sec X 22 (110 minutes) guiding: SVBony 60 mm f/4 guide scopr (FL= 240 mm) with ZWO ASI120MM Mini guide camera
processing
Aquired and stacked by James Foster with Maxim DL. Post-processed in Adobe Photoshop Elements by Michael Stecker. . photographic site: James Foster's observatory at Frazier Park California https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frazier_Park,_California (Bortle 4 at 5,500 feet elevation) |
Crop of above image file: M20-JRF-SWnewt250P-110minRGBSHARP3A-cr1-usm1.jpg |