Tales from a Cosmic Blast Zone: Jellyfish Nebula (NB Color Mapper)

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Tales from a Cosmic Blast Zone: Jellyfish Nebula (NB Color Mapper)

One of my favorite narrowband targets for wider field systems is this wonderful field that really represents two different things. The first, being the iconic Jellyfish Nebula, which represents the remains of star that had its life end, and a massive emission cloud of very dense gas trailing away from it. Framing this object can be about as fun as taking it, but this view of it is my personal favorite.

The total exposure time here is really low, as when the data was captured it was only available to me for a very small amount of time due to trees. The OIII signal here is very weak, although you can make some of it out around the shell of the Jellyfish, some leading into the gas cloud, and on the north side of the cloud where the color changes to a a more purplish-orange hue. Modern tooling did greatly improve this image however. The one small unfortunate thing are some star halos, which are present on all three masters. This was the reason I moved away from 5nm Astrodon filters to the 3nm filters from Chroma. In fact, this was the last image I took before I made that change.

Nonetheless, another big win for the NB Color Mapper script and hopefully an image you can enjoy as much as I do.

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