M-20 Trifid Nebula

About Image:

M-20 also known as the Trifid Nebula, its a star-forming region about 9,000 lightyears away from earth in the constellation Sagittarius. I imaged this area with the cheap stock equipment I have to see if I could get the the long thin jets exhausting from the star formation zooming in on the lower right of the central stars of the main nebula. I can make them out knowing they are there.

Equipment & Details:

Optics: Orion 8” inch 3.9f Newtonian astrograph

Camera: Canon 60D DSLR unmoddified

Mount: Celestron AVX

Guiding: Orion starshoot autoguider 60mm guide scope

Dates: 2022-August 23, 30, 31 / 2025-August 23, 25, 26

Location: Clarksdale Missouri

Exposures: Lights 131 x 4-minutes subs, ISO-1250 total 8 hours 44 minutes

Processing: Pixlnsight, Photoshop CS5