M20 - The Trifid Nebula

Trifid Nebula
Telescope: Takahashi FS-102 Refractor @f/8
Camera: SBIG ST-8 w/CFW-8 Color Filter Wheel
Exposures:  8 min. Red, 8 min. Green, 16 min. Blue
Note: I used CCDSoft by Software Bisque to control the camera, capture and dark-subtract the images.
Images were registered and combined in RegiStar.
Post processing (cropping, Curves) was done in Photoshop 6.
Finally, Grain Surgery was applied to reduce the noise in the image.
   
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