Messier 20 (NGC 6514) Trifid Nebula
From time to time I obtain data sets from remote observatories. One of my favorite providers is Telescope Live with telescopes in e.g. Chile, Australia and Spain. One of the data sets I received, was data from the Trifid Nebula (M20, NGC 6514) , located in the constellation Sagittarius.
The images were taken with the following equipment (Telescope Live CHI-1):
| Location | El Sauce Observatory, Chile |
| Telescope | Planwave CDK24 |
| Focal length [mm] | 3900 |
| Focal ratio | 6.5 |
| Mount | Mathis MI-1000/1250 |
| Camera | QHY 600M Pro |
| Filter | Hα:[OIII][SII] |
| Exposure time [min] | 30:20:30 |
| Resolution | 0.39″/px (Bin2) |
Data calibration and registration and the final processing was done with PixInsight. The result was as follows:
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