M20 - NGC 6514 - The Trifid Nebula

Image Description and Details :

This is my image of the wonderful and iconic Trifid Nebula. It is about 4100 ly away and is 42 ly across.
My 0.54 degree x 0.54 degree field of view, beautifully accommodates it.

Capture details:
Dates; 2021-04-22 to 2021-05-18
Lights: 24.5 hours integration
Lum: 32 x 600 secs
Red: 23 x 600 secs
Green: 22 x 600 secs
Blue: 22 x 600 secs

Bias: 35
Darks: 35
Flats: 20 per colour channel per camera change
There are some very bright foreground stars, which I decided not to reduce too much through Morphological Transformation, as compositionally I feel they add a lot to the image.
My image scale and advantageous latitude, which means the object was at a good altitude throughout the imaging runs, plus generally decent seeing meant that good resolution of detail was possible. I was particularly pleased to resolve the stellar jet as imaged by the HST. This is a Herbog-Haro object numbered HH 399.

Copyright: Niall MacNeill