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The Iris nebula amidst ghostly veils and helping hands, pmneo
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The Iris nebula amidst ghostly veils and helping hands

The Iris nebula amidst ghostly veils and helping hands, pmneo
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The Iris nebula amidst ghostly veils and helping hands

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Description

This is a 3x1 panel mosaic of the area from the ghost nebula to the helping hands.

In 2022 I photographed the Iris Nebula together with a small part of the helping hands.

The plan was then to create a 2 panel mosaic with the complete hands at the end of 2023. I photographed the second panel with 0° rotation, but this left me with a missing section and I had to shoot another panel. During the planning I realized that the ghost nebula still fit into the FOV. 

It was very tough to correct the background gradients to get a flat widescreen image...

In total I collected about 124 hours of photons and processed 3,376 frames ( about 160GB of raw data )

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