A Different Trifid

Description:

The Trifid is not exactly a narrowband target but I recently saw the Hubble anniversary image and thought that would be something interesting. Now Mike Selby handed me over the AZ1500 for a couple of nights and so gave it a try. The seeing was not very good the first night and I got some frames up to 1.7”, the second night was much better at least with subs at 0.9” to 1.1”. I tried to stack everything I had but that does not work well as with the bad frames in the mix the rejection just eats up features so I discarded the first night and used only the better subs. The star are RGB and taken with the EQ1000 in Namibia. I also took the freedom to rotate it by 90 degrees as it gives the Trifid a different appearance.

Copyright: Wolfgang