trifid nebula

While looking for images for Doug's Thursday Task I came across a Deep Space Astro image I had started to process but never finished. If I recall correctly it was because of all of the "gunk" in the image. I had been only imaging up close and tight until then, and when I shot this one wider, I...

Here is my version before I removed the stars. Technically most people remove the stars early on in the processing so that they don't get bloated by the processing itself. I did it just as I was almost done with the processing because that was when I thought about it. :) So in this with the...

I captured this last week out at Bonneville Salt Flats. An amazing dark sky location. Lagoon and the Trifid area is a rich area in the night sky. With this image I removed the stars in it (which I haven't done in a while) and I liked the way it rendered the surrounding Milky Way with a soft...

Nikon D850 Tamron 150-600mm @ 420mm SkyGuider Pro 17 x 60 secs and ISO 6400 12 x Dark Frames 12 x Bias Frames 12 x Flat Frames

Running very low on Astro Photos to process. This is a crop of a previous image but with completely new processing for this as I focused just on Trifid. It's one that grabbed my eye from the first time I came across it because I like it's distinct 50/50 Blue and Red theme. This isn't perfect...

This was from the end up of the night as it doesn't rise above the horizon until about 4am. I thought it had some cool color and shape to it. I am still working on my post processing obviously, but I am pretty happy with how this turned out since I was struggling a bit getting the red of the...