Description (Wikipedia)It was initially thought that this could be a
reflection nebula , an illuminated part of the
dark nebula LDN 1551; later it was recognized as a cloud of ionized gas, belonging to the class of
objects HH , cataloged as HH 102.
[3] The distance of the object is estimated at 139
parsecs (453
light years ) and is located in front of the
Cloud complex del Taurus , one of the star -
forming regions of low-mass stars closest to
the solar system ;
[2]although apparently associated with Hyades, the two objects are not physically linked, as Hyades are in the foreground, just 151 light-years from the
Sun.Personal noteFrom a processing perspective one of the most challenging projects I have done so far. Needs a lot of data over many nights to bring down the noise in this low signal image. Getting the background right (not too red) and getting the colour of the dust clouds right (brownish) was difficult. I noticed that raising the colour saturation and applying LocalHistogramEqalization helped.
WorkflowPixinsight: WBPP, DBE, RGB combi, BG & Color calib, EZ denoise, MaskStretch, ArcsynthStretch, curves, MLT, LocalHistogramEqalization.
Please let me know your feedback and your suggestions on how to improve further. Thank you! 
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