M20 - The Trifid Nebula (Curves)
Bellwood, PA USA
Messier 20. Shot using a Meade LX200 10" f/6.3 telescope at approx. f/4.7 using a SBIG ST-2000XM with a color filter wheel (CFW8a). 9 x 5 minutes luminance at 2x2 binned. 2 x 5 minutes each RGB channel at 3x3 binned. Acquired using CCDOps. Aligned and LRGB combined in CCDSoft. Luminance combined using Ray Gralak's Sigma. Dark frame and flat fields applied. Adjusted histogram, adjusted curves and touched up in Adobe Photoshop 6.0. Processed slightly different that the other M20 in this gallery. Self guided by the SBIG ST-2000XM imager.
SBIG ST-2000XM,Meade LX200 F/10
All Images Copyright by Bill Worley