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Wolf cave Nebula, Jared Bowens
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Wolf cave Nebula

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Wolf cave Nebula

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Wolf cave nebula also known as Van den Bergh 152Cederblad 201 this is a enigmatic cloud of dust, the blue patch is caused by the bluish star lightning the very dark area immediately behind the blue is a very thick dense cloud prevents and light from beyond from being seen, the further away the less dense. 6.5 hours 4-minutes subs taken in Northwest Missouri

8" inch orion newtonian f3.9 astrograph, Canon 60d unmoddified, starshoot autoguider 60mm guide scope all on a Celestron AVX mount

Processing Deep sky stacker photos regestered then stacked, Pixlinsight dynamic crop, dynamic background ext, non linear stretch using local histrogram, Noisexterminator, BlurXTerminator, curves trans for saturations, Photoshop levels, shadow highlights, selective color adjustments, back to pixlinsight star mask added, morphologies transforms.

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Wolf cave Nebula, Jared Bowens