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Eastern Veil Nebula "Starless Bat Nebula" and Rarely Imaged Small Distant Galaxies, Dave Erickson

Eastern Veil Nebula "Starless Bat Nebula" and Rarely Imaged Small Distant Galaxies

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Eastern Veil Nebula "Starless Bat Nebula" and Rarely Imaged Small Distant Galaxies, Dave Erickson

Eastern Veil Nebula "Starless Bat Nebula" and Rarely Imaged Small Distant Galaxies

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I completely reprocessed this data and framed an interesting portion of the eastern Veil nebula affectionately known as the "Bat Nebula". This is presented without starts to emphasize the many small galaxies surrounding the nebula. This also highlights the power of star extraction, like Russell Crowman's StarXTerminator.
https://www.rc-astro.com/resources/StarXTerminator/

I used the slower but more gentle on fine details "Large Overlap" option for this image.

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