Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  Bubble Nebula  ·  NGC 7510  ·  NGC 7635
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Beware the Electric Lobster, Chris Kagy
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Beware the Electric Lobster

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Beware the Electric Lobster, Chris Kagy
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Beware the Electric Lobster

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Lurking deep in the sea of the sky is the dangerous offspring of an electric eel and a lobster - the Electric Lobster.  Beware the claws that catch and zzzap!

Kidding aside (mostly), this is a heavily colorized HOO image of the well known Lobster Claw and Bubble Nebulas.  I had ~22 hours of combined Ha, SII and OIII to play with. I used the Ha and OIII to generate the base image, and then used masks generated from the three bands to push the colors around using curves. I went back to the Ha image for a luminance layer and worked on the contrast using local contrast enhancement, curves, and further range masking.

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Beware the Electric Lobster, Chris Kagy

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