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The dusty Spider (IC 417), C. Jonas Moiel
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The dusty Spider (IC 417)

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The dusty Spider (IC 417), C. Jonas Moiel
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The dusty Spider (IC 417)

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This is an LRGB+Ha image of the Spider nebula. I also shot Oiii data but the signal was so faint I didn't end up using it. I also added very little Ha to the LRGB image to preserve the more natural RGB color.

This was a very difficult image to process with the faint dust, and very bright stars. I attempted to stretch the image various ways and ended up using Generalized Hyperbolic Stretch. It was my first time using GHS but thanks to Adam Block videos, it was pretty easy to figure out. I was not able to get a better stretch using any other method. Pretty nice processing tool!

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The dusty Spider (IC 417), C. Jonas Moiel