Fighting Dragons of ARA (protecting the Egg) (Philip Herbst)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Ara (Ara) · Contains: NGC 6165 · NGC 6188 · NGC 6193 · Rim Nebula

Fighting Dragons of ARA (protecting the Egg), Philip Herbst

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Fighting Dragons of ARA (protecting the Egg)

I have been wanting to shoot this dramatic and dusty steller spectacle since first becoming interested in AP. I plan to add more data but thought I'd upload my provisional processing. NGC 6188 is an emission nebula almost 4000 light years from us. It is a star forming region with a number of hot young stars. NGC 6164 is the 'Egg', a remnant of a star that went supernova ( Information from APOD 07/11/2018 )

HA: 35 x 300s
OIII: 34 x 300s)

Dark, Flat and Bias frames x 25 each.

HOO processing. Pixinsight primarily, finished in PS

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Description: I have added a significant amount of data to the original image and reprocessed to improve the colours.
Bicolour processing in PixInsight and finished in Photoshop

HA: 80 x 300s
OIII: 89 x 300s

Total integration: 14Hrs

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Title: Fighting Dragons of ARA - reprocess

Description: Being first plagued by cloudy weather and now a faulty ASI 1600 camera, I have decided to reprocess some HOO data from a couple of years ago. Still a HOO image, I have used a very different colour palette to better illustrate the hydrogen and oxygen in this area. I hope to collect new data including S2 in the coming season for a fresh, new image in SHO :)

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