Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  HD237016  ·  LBN 670
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Ghosts of the Soul (IC 1848), astrovienna
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Ghosts of the Soul (IC 1848)

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Ghosts of the Soul (IC 1848)

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This image shows the ghostly dust pillars in the southwestern section of the Soul Nebula, an emission nebula complex located 7500 light years away in Cassiopeia.  The nebula is illuminated by the open cluster Collinder 34.  IC 1848 was discovered by William Herschel in 1790.

This is a modified Hubble palette narrowband image.  The dust columns use a luminance layer composed of 2/3 Ha and 1/3 SII.  The rest of the image has no separate luminance layer.  I did most of the green-to-gold color shifting in Photoshop with the selective color tool, but augmented that in the open areas with an SCNR on green in Pixinsight, which did a better job bringing out blue than selective color.  I also had to repair some ring and linear artifacts in the OIII image, which I did with the burn and dodge tools of Photoshop.

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Ghosts of the Soul (IC 1848), astrovienna

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