{"id":27788,"date":"2020-05-21T01:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=27788"},"modified":"2020-05-21T20:37:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T06:37:39","slug":"trifid-in-hydrogen-alpha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=27788","title":{"rendered":"Trifid in Hydrogen Alpha"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Next up is the Trifid Nebula in Hydrogen Alpha.  This bright nebula is less than two degrees above the Lagoon Nebula as seen in the <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=27766\">post a few days ago<\/a>.  Indeed, the bright wisps along the bottom of this shot are the northern bits of the Lagoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Trifid, also known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkerview.com\/scripts\/query.php?M20\">M20 or NGC6514<\/a>,  is another stellar nursery where star formation is occurring as we watch.  The dense gas and dust is being carved into a cavity by the stallar winds of these hot young stars within the nebula creating the bright  core cut with dark lanes of dust that we see in this image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To truly capture this region I need to take at lest one more frame of the area and put together the several resulting frames as a mosaic to cover this large and beautiful nebulae complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=27789\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/M20-Ha-10x60s-10x300s-20200520.jpg\" alt=\"Trifid in Hydrogen Alpha\" class=\"wp-image-27789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/M20-Ha-10x60s-10x300s-20200520.jpg 900w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/M20-Ha-10x60s-10x300s-20200520-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The Trifid Nebula in Hydrogen Alpha<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next up is the Trifid Nebula in Hydrogen Alpha. This bright nebula is less than two degrees above the Lagoon Nebula as seen in the post a few days ago. Indeed, the bright wisps along the bottom of this shot are the northern bits of the Lagoon. The Trifid, also known as M20 or NGC6514, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=27788\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trifid in Hydrogen Alpha&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,260],"tags":[279,716,718],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/M20-Ha-10x60s-10x300s-20200520.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27788"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27802,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27788\/revisions\/27802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}