Right in the heart of the Milky Way lie a few popular nebulae. The Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae are so close together, that even at 510mm they fit into a crop sensor field of view. This was a quick and dirty imaging session. Guiding was horrible (up to 3.5 arcsec) and I had very little time to shoot them, due to their low location in the sky. But at least I coughed something up.
![Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae](http://astroimaging.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/m8-and-m20-1024x665.png)
GEAR USED
Orion ED80 with 0.85x reducer
AVX mount
D5300 Halpha modded
ST80/QHY5L-II-M guiding
IMAGE ACQUISITION DETAILS
Sharpcap polar alignment
8 dithered subs x 180seconds
20 flats
40 bias
TAKEN AT
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IMAGE PROCESSING
DSS and Pixinsight
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