M20

[muletopia (Chris)]

After a many month delay with 12 volt battery problems last night was the first with a couple of hours of clear sky, a bonus, also moonless.
The picture is a stack of 12 5 minute exposures at gain three with a QHY8l.
Telescope Takahashi 250 CDK, mount Mesu mount 200 MK1

Stacking and processing in APP.
I am not entirely happy with the processing so any advice would be most welcome.
Chris

[gb44 (Glenn)]

Looks pretty good to me mate.
I do prefer a little more colour saturation.
You could sharpen it up a bit with a little high pass filter on PS, maybe, but just a touch.
How did you get all that blue? No filter at all?

GlennB

[muletopia (Chris)]

Hello Glen,
As you surmise no filters at all, just a dark site (Bortle1) at my back yard observatory
Chris

[AstroViking (Steve)]

Hi Chris,

Lovely sharp image there. As Glenn said, boost the colour saturation (but not too much) to bring out the blues and reds.

Cheers,
V.

[ahmed_haider (Ahmed)]

That is a great Trifid! Details are amazing.
Thanks for sharing

[Dave882 (David)]

Looks amazing! The natural colour and detail in the reflection nebula is really spectacular.

[muletopia (Chris)]

Thank you gentlemen for looking kind words and advice.
Chris