Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Ara (Ara)  ·  Contains:  NGC 6188  ·  NGC 6193  ·  PK336-01.1  ·  Rim Nebula
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NGC6188 Fighting Dragons of Ara, Jeff Weiss
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NGC6188 Fighting Dragons of Ara

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NGC6188 Fighting Dragons of Ara

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Image using sample data from Deep Sky West in Chile

True color LRGB image of the Fighting Dragons of Ara (Rim Nebula) is usually done in NB with a SHO pallet which shows much greater contrast in the small features in the nebula, but this is my best effort in LRGB. The colors from PixInsight Photometric Color Calibration.

NGC 6188 (center) is an emission nebula located about 4,000 light years away in the constellation Ara. The bright open cluster NGC 6193 (above center) is visible to the naked eye, and is responsible for the region of reflection nebulosity within NGC 6188. NGC 6188 is a star forming nebula, and is sculpted by the massive, young stars that have recently formed there – some are only a few million years old. This spark of formation was probably caused when the last batch of stars went supernova. [Wikipedia]

In my imagination, I see the fighting dragons as the opposing multi-headed, dark clouds, rather than the bright emission nebula illuminated by the even brighter open cluster above it.

Completely reprocessed from the DSW data 11/29/20. (original Original deleted)

Reprocessed from scratch again 12/3/20.

Starnet++ used for better star suppression and slightly improved contrast (5/1/21).

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Description: Used Starnet++ to get better star suppression and slightly better contrast for the nebula. Also cropped and slight Topaz Denoise AI.

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NGC6188 Fighting Dragons of Ara, Jeff Weiss