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Pacman's Ghosts

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The Pacman Nebula (a.k.a. NGC 281) is a bright emission nebula found in the constellation Cassiopeia, located nearly 10 thousand light years distant. Surrounding Pacman are huge patches of interstellar dust.

This is nearly 21 hours of data captured over several weeks in October 2022.

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Description: I've reprocessed my original image from the last master light using new techniques. I'm trying to get better at pulling out the dark dust in the images without making them look gross, and I think I'm getting a bit better at it.

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Pacman's Ghosts, Joshua Kovach