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NGC6188 - The Fighting Dragons of Ara, John Dziuba

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NGC6188 - The Fighting Dragons of Ara, John Dziuba

NGC6188 - The Fighting Dragons of Ara

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The Dragons of Ara captured from Longreach, QLD Australia.  This is the final target from my May imaging trip to the outback.  I have always been drawn to this nebula, well before I began my imaging journey.  I was excited to have the opportunity to capture this target myself in such amazing conditions.

This is a roughly an SHO pallet with blending in the R and G channels to create a more dynamic range of colors.  To bring out the color in NGC 6164 or the "egg" in the lower right quadrant, I processed an HOO version of the image and then I replaced the egg in the image with the HOO version of the egg.

I wish I had collected some RGB data for stars, but that gives me reason to go back in the future. The nebula is roughly 4000 light years away in the constellation Ara.  It is a star nursery housing many massive, young stars that are responsible for both reflection and emission nebulosity.  The spark for the current star formation was likely caused when the last batch of stars went supernova. (Wikipedia)

The unrelated nebulosity that is the egg (NGC 6164) is caused by a rare, massive, and hot O-type star that is roughly 40 times larger than the Sun.  Its intense energy is pushing away and ionizing the material around the star causing the region to glow.   It is more than halfway through its relatively short life and in a mere few million years will die in a supernova event.

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NGC6188 - The Fighting Dragons of Ara, John Dziuba