Images were downloaded to Bridge, stacked in deep sky stacker, processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop

This is M20 or Trifid Nebula. It is a stellar nursery - large embryonic molecular cloud of (mainly hydrogen) gas and dust that is giving brith to new stars. Really interesting and striking to photograph. It is catalogue as M20 or Messier 20, NGC 6514, Shapless 30. It is emission, reflection, and dark nebula. is an H II region in the north-west of Sagittarius in a star-forming region in the Milky Way’s Scutum-Centarus Arm. It was discovered by Charles Messier on June 4, 1764. The name Trifid comes from Latin and means three-lobed, and was given by John Herschel despite his father Willim noting fourth faint lobe.

With reference to the image, you can see the bright “emission nebula” glowing in red, which is the result of radiation being emitted from the hot young stars being born in the nebula and ionizing the surrounding gas. The blue glow that you see is a “reflection nebula” as the gas and dust of the molecular cloud is reflecting the light nearby stars and is not being directly ionized. The darker regions and lanes that you see twisting across the glowing nebula (and appearing to separate the emission nebula into four section are dark nebulae, or regions of dust that are obscuring the glow of the emission and reflection from our view.

30 light frames
60 dark frames
60 bias frames
60 flat frames