Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Ophiuchus (Oph)  ·  Contains:  19 Sco  ·  19 omi Sco  ·  20 Sco)  ·  20 sig Sco  ·  21 Sco)  ·  21 alf Sco  ·  22 Sco  ·  22 i Sco  ·  5 Oph  ·  5 rho Oph  ·  9 Oph  ·  9 ome Oph  ·  Al Niyat (σ Sco  ·  Alniyat  ·  Alniyat I  ·  Antares  ·  Cor Scorpii  ·  HD145073  ·  HD145209  ·  HD145277  ·  HD145376  ·  HD145441  ·  HD145506  ·  HD145534  ·  HD145656  ·  HD145751  ·  HD145792  ·  HD145810  ·  HD145857  ·  HD145966  ·  And 205 more.
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First Rho Ophiuchi, Mike Coates
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Description

My first time shooting the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex. Only a little over one hour of data, but from my in-laws bortle 4 drive way with clear desert skies made this really rewarding. I can't wait to get more and more data to really bring out some more color and detail.

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Revisions

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B

Description: Some noise reduction and saturation boost.

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C

Description: Photoshop plugin Astroflat Pro applied to reduce background further, which allowed for a bit more saturation boost to bring out those sweet colors.

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E

Description: Reprocessed from scratch entirely in PixInsight.

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First Rho Ophiuchi, Mike Coates