I’m excited to share my picture of the PacMan Nebula (NGC286) with you.
I captured the visible light in the picture from my backyard in Utrecht, the Netherlands, with my Celestron Edge HD 8" telescope at F/7 with the reducer, and my ZWO ASI1600MM pro camera using 7nm Ha, Sii, Oiii narrowband filters, creating a Hubble palette (SHO).Image details: Ha 30x300s, Sii 30x300s Oiii 30x300s .
I eliminated the original starfield in the visible light spectrum, creating a starless image, and matched that image with additional infrared data (in red) from Spitzer and X-ray data (in purple) from Chandra to reveal the star formation regions (e.g., IC1590) hidden within the molecular clouds of the PacMan Nebula, creating a visible light, x-ray, and infrared representation of the nebula.
Plate solving will not work as stars in this picture are invisible to the visual light spectrum, as they are hidden within the clouds.
I was excited to learn that this region in space is still actively surveyed by professional astronomers to learn more about the young stages of star formation (e.g. Kim et al. (2021), link:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.15129.pdf).
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