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M81 & M82 - Bode's and Cigar Galaxies Swimming in a Sea of Cosmic Dust, Space City Astro
M81 & M82 - Bode's and Cigar Galaxies Swimming in a Sea of Cosmic Dust, Space City Astro

M81 & M82 - Bode's and Cigar Galaxies Swimming in a Sea of Cosmic Dust

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M81 & M82 - Bode's and Cigar Galaxies Swimming in a Sea of Cosmic Dust, Space City Astro
M81 & M82 - Bode's and Cigar Galaxies Swimming in a Sea of Cosmic Dust, Space City Astro

M81 & M82 - Bode's and Cigar Galaxies Swimming in a Sea of Cosmic Dust

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My capture of Bode's and Cigar galaxies with surrounding IFN - interstellar dust reflecting light from the Milky Way back to toward Earth. Getting above a 2:1 L:RGB ratio really helped pull out some detail in the IFN and made it pop.

Processing was tedious and took about a dozen different masks to individually work on the 4 most prominent galaxies in the image, plus the background, as well as several merged masks to help preserve details in certain areas when combining Ha data.

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M81 & M82 - Bode's and Cigar Galaxies Swimming in a Sea of Cosmic Dust, Space City Astro