ShaRA team's memberYou may ask, what does ShaRA stand for? It's a new open project called "Shared Remote Astrophotography» and is based on crowd or group funding for buying imaging time on large telescopes around the world. Since this beautiful hoppy is somehow expensive (it's an understatement
), a great idea emerged and allowed non-occupational astrophotographers to work together and put their hands on top-notch instruments like the one used as part as this project (see details below).
This picture features the
Cosmic Reef whose data has been gathered thanks to a great collaboration of a dozen of astrophotographers from different countries. With regards to this project, ShaRA team agreed upon renting a 1-meter large telescope located in Rio Hurtado, Chile. Overall, and without really surprising anyone, it took the team several nights, in late 2022 to gather enough data so that we could produce image like the one that I have processed.
As you may have noticed, this image is really close to the Hubble version published in 2020 (see below image).
Processing this image was very insightful and challenging. Very complicated to make it sharp and at the same time keeping artifacts and noise at bay. However, it's comforting to see that even Hubble's image isn't that sharp
. Therefore, I may consider the job as "done".
I hope you will like it.
CS,
Aygen
Acquisition details:
Copyright processing: Aygen Erkaslan (@ae_astrophotons)
Data copyright; ShaRA team
Telescope: ASA AZ 1000
Camera: FLI PL 16803
Filters: Sii, Oiii, Ha, RGB
Total integration: 8H
Location : Rio Hurtado, Chilescope, Chile
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