[ThomasMore]

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[Red Badger]

[ETL]

"Both are well-known star forming regions about 5,000 light-years distant. Just passing through the same field of view on September 29, the yellowish star lined up with M8 and M20 at the lower right is actually Mars, close to 8.8 light-minutes from Earth on that date."

For anyone who doesn't know, one light-year, the DISTANCE light travels in a year at its fixed speed of 186,000 miles per SECOND, works out to about 5.9 TRILLION miles.

[minnesota_bound]

Looks like the universe has lots of smog.

[dragnet2]

Trifid Nebula 9/6/2015 42x35s ISO800, Canon 60D.

I shot this nebula about about 1 year ago. It's the nebula seen on the upper left corner of the authors image.

Mine was a bit of a closeup of the Nebula. I only regret not obtaining more data on the image prior to processing, so I plan on revisiting the nebula in the near future.

The Trifid Nebula is a star forming region within our Milky Way galaxy, located a little over 5,000 light years from Earth. The nebula can actually be seen from dark sites with a pair of binoculars, however it will appear as a very small hazy patch in the sky.