By Richard Crisp
Taken June 20, 2009 from my cattle ranch in the California Sierra Gold Country.
Telescope was Astro-Physics AP155EDF f/7 used with a 4" field flattener
Camera was FLI Proline PL39000C 39 megapixel one shot color camera
A Baader Planetarium 50 x 50 mm IR blocking luminance filter was used
Mount was an Astro-Physics AP1200GTO
Exposures were 19 x 15 minute subexposures, total of 4H 45M
higher resolution photos here:
http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/m8_m20_ap155_pl39K_page.htm
full resolution: http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/images/m8_m20_ap155_f7_baader_19x15min.jpg