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IC1318 Butterfly Nebula, alistairmac
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IC1318 Butterfly Nebula

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IC1318 Butterfly Nebula

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I took this back in August as a 2x1 mosaic. The letterbox final image is due to there being quite a mismatch between the positioning of the two sets of subs and a fair crop was required. On this version I have gone for an SHO palette and although there isn't a great deal going on on the right hand side, I quite like the contrast between the blue O111 and the more golden Ha dominated left side. Located in Cygnus, this nebula is approx 5000LY from Earth

This is a total of 22x15' Ha, 30x15'O111 and 40x15' S11 (I had to reject a lot of Ha). Processed in Pixinsight.

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IC1318 Butterfly Nebula, alistairmac

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