This was a very frustrating post processing ride that I burdened myself with. Originally, after one night's worth of data, I did what I considered to be a quick and dirty post processing run. I liked the results but decided to take another nights worth of data. With that data in hand I went back and tried to match the original look with the benefit of more data and - you guessed it - could not make that happen. While I am really pretty happy with this result as is, it is disappointing to not be able to use the additional ~3 hours of data. Note to self (
again, actually) - make better notes and save more intermediate results, even when doing a quick post process run. Or perhaps don't do a quick post process run at all
This colorful region shows off both the blue reflection nebula known as M78, and also a glowing tendril of the much larger emission nebula called Barnard's Loop, both of which are part of the larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. The loop is a remnant of a supernova explosion estimated to have occurred approximately 2 million years ago.
This image is made in natural light but with Hα emission line data added to accentuate the faint nebulosity of the loop to better bring out it's structure and color.
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