Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)
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Lion Nebula, Walter Torres
Lion Nebula
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Lion Nebula

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Lion Nebula, Walter Torres
Lion Nebula
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Lion Nebula

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So, until just recently I didn't know anything about this target until another user posted his excellent capture of it.  As luck would have it, it is in the sliver of sky that is visible from my backyard so I decided to image it.  After the first subs came through it seemed to me that there is very little Sii in the nebula so I decided to continue shooting only Ha and Oiii.  I processed the Ha and Oiii channels in PixInsight as I normally do but combined them in Photoshop is Red and Blue and created a synthetic "Green" channel using Astronomy Tools by ProDigital.  So I'm not sure if this qualifies as an HOO palette but it looks natural to me so I'm happy with it.

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Lion Nebula, Walter Torres

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