The Trifid Nebula

Image The Trifid Nebula
Catalog 20080527
Telescope William Optics 110mm f/5.95 Refractor telescope on
observatory mounted Losmandy G-11 equatorial mount with Gemini 4.
Guiding Autoguided with SBIG 402 on Orion ST-80 f/5 guidescope with CCDOps.
Camera

Digital SLR Canon 450D Rebel Xsi modified by Hutech.

Exposures 20 x 4-minute exposures @ ISO 400.
Total Exposure time 80-minutes.
Filter/equipment Astronomik 2" CLS filter,
Baader 2" I/R Cut Filter,
Baader MP Coma Corrector.
Processing Darks, bias and flat-fielded with DeepSkyStacker,
post processing in Photoshop.
Notes .

(C) Copyright 2008 Paul Mayo.
paulm@skylab.com.au

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