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The Music of the Night (SH2-173), Bob Stevenson
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The Music of the Night (SH2-173)

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The Music of the Night (SH2-173)

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We can all hear the music of the night. It is playing overhead on every clear night. You just have to listen for it...

Here we see the lurking Phantom (played by SH2-173) reaching for Christine (played by K Cas). What will happen next?

This is a cropped 4 panel mosaic taken with 2 cameras (mostly ASI1600MM with some ASI2600MM) and 3 scopes (C8 hyperstar, Redcat and Explore Scientific ED80) over a month or so between the clouds. It was a real mish mash of data (revision I), but fun to combine.

Revision H:
As astrophotographers we apply a lot of science to acquire our data. Once we start to process the data however, the decisions we make are more along the lines of art. We highlight certain areas by brightening and sharpening, and hide others by reducing the brightness and using noise reduction or blurring.

But what if we hid things by simply not including them in the data at all? Here, I wanted to confine the Phantom to 1 quadrant of the final image to provide some distance between him and the star K Cas. I think this distance adds tension and interest by implying there is impending doom. So I simply did not include the Ha data for the rest of the frame. Is this going too far, or is artistic licence?

Revision I:
Ha mash up from multiple systems

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  • The Music of the Night (SH2-173), Bob Stevenson
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  • The Music of the Night (SH2-173), Bob Stevenson
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  • The Music of the Night (SH2-173), Bob Stevenson
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Description: The Phantom restricted to 1 quadrent.

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Description: Ha mash up

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The Music of the Night (SH2-173), Bob Stevenson