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CapturingTheNight β Trifid Nebula M20
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Β© Greg Gibbs. You may not use, replicate, manipulate, or modify this image without my permission. All Rights Reserved.The Trifid Nebula (catalogued as Messier 20 or M20 and as NGC 6514)
I have been very lucky to have great astrophotography weather here over the last four days. This will be the last picture for at least a couple of days, looking at the forecast.
I would love to know if anyone has a request for a Deep Space Object. I'm always up for a challenge.
28/06/2011
Canon EOS 1000D
Baader Coma Corrector
10 inch (25cm) F/4 Newtonian Reflector Telescope
NEQ6 PRO Computerised Goto Mount
Orion 80mm ShortTube Guide Scope
Synguider Autoguider
16X 4 minute exposures plus 31X 2 minutes exposures
ISO 400
Images stacked and alligned in Deep Sky Stacker
Final processing in Photoshop Elements 8.0
This Nebula is close to the Lagoon Nebula
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Comments: 54
I really like how you've captured the fainter, orange stars. They are like tiny flying grans of gold. I also like strong the blues in the nebula. Overall, beautiful capture! Β
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Thank you so muchΒ
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You're welcome. Β
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Is this a diffuse nebulae or planetary nebulae?
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Combination of emission and reflection nebula
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Thank you very much
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Everything you capture is so beautiful. <3
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I'm glad you like them all. Thank you very much
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love this, i would love to see a planet, not sure how far your kit can see but even venus in detail would be awesome xxx
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Thank you very much Gemma 
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look forward to it x
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Here's a challenge. What about saturn? How detalied of a shot can you get of it!
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Without magnification on my telescope, not very detailed at all. For instance if you look at the above picture- Do you see that yellowish star in the blue part of the nebula just to the left of the pink part? I think thats about the size that Saturn would be currently with my photography gear. I can see the rings and some of the moons when I look through my scope at it with magnified lenses, but I am not set up to image through them yet.
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So an image like this one is farther away, but on a much larger scale?
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Oh very much so. I don't know the exact distances but it would take light years to travel across it, and it is over 5000 light years away from us. So to put that in perspective with Saturn- Saturn is about 1.4 Billion kilometers away from our sun. 1 light year is about 9.46 Trillion kilometers. We are talking one very, very, very large object.
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Another fantastic piece! Almost looks unreal.
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Thank you very much
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No Problem!
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i would love to see some photos of M1 the crab nebula and M97 The Owl Nebula and M42: The Orion Nebula and if you can also M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy and only one more... M74 i would be happy to see your photos of any of these all would be too much to ask cause i know it takes lots of time can't wait to see more of your stuff
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just saw your pick of the orion nebula way awsome didn't realize that there was already a pick of it way awesome though seriously
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Thank you very much
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thats true your way over there lol so i guess ill just have to be patiant with nature lol darn nature being so complicated
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For the Deep Sky Challenge, I suggest a planetary nebula, like NGC 3132. I know it's a real challenge in your case, as you have a short focal length Newton telescope. Maybe with a Barlow lens or a Televue Powermate?
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Thanks for the challenge
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How much do they cost in Australia?
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Going by the website of the place where I bought my telescope- a Tele Vue 2" 2xBarlow $209 (Current exchange rate $1 Australian = $1.03 Canadian)a 2" 2x Tele Vue Powermate $309 and the 4x version $10 dollars more. What are they going for in your store....and if it is heaps cheaper do you post to Australia?
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I just check at the store, the 2" barrel Powermates are 279.95 $ CAD and 289.95 $ CAD respectively, and the Big Barlow is 209.95 $ CAD. Australian prices are just unbeatable, considering taxes and expensive shipping rates!
I was curious about the Australian prices compared to the American and European market.
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Thanks for checking that out Myriam
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With the following telescope [link]
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Considering the focal length of your telescope (1000 mm) and the length of your APS-C Canon sensor (26.7 mm) as well as Canon 1.6X cropping factor, you currently obtain a ~ 60X magnification. For any planetary nebulae, since they quite small, I guess you should have at least 120X. The 2X Big Barlow in this case could be good. However, the Powermate 4X yields about 240X magnification, which I think is better, but requires good stabilization.
For example, I have once shot a planetary nebula (Eskimo, or on a 1.6 m telescope, with something like 600X magnification, and it was covering about half of the available field (9.7 x 9.7 arcminΒ²)...
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Thank you so much for the helpful information.
Small clarification- my telescope has a 800mm focal length.
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OMG! My favorite nebula! Beautiful, the tracking is just great, and you didn't, like many do, boost the color contrasts. I LOVE IT!
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This came out great! Nice little Nebula. Excellent work sir
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Thank you very much Shaun
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Thank you very much
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Thank you very much Lucy
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No problem. 
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Without overloading you with model numbers, It's probably easier if you go to my profile page and click on my DeviantID picture. You can see my astrophotography setup and the bits are descibed in the description. I attach my old camera (Canon 1000D) to it.
Good luck with it all if you decide to try one day.
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Well, if you wish to pick up the challenge
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And, yeah I know other did photos of it, but I want to see You doing that
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