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The Crab nebula in Technicolor :), Francesco Meschia
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The Crab nebula in Technicolor :)

The Crab nebula in Technicolor :), Francesco Meschia
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The Crab nebula in Technicolor :)

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The Crab nebula in its starfield, imaged using narrowband filters (3.5nm H-alpha and 4nm S-II and O-III). This object gives strong signal in all three bands, and as a result it’s easy (maybe too easy) to bring out stark color contrast in regions where certain chemical elements abound, while others are missing. While I acknowledge that this rendition is even excessively flamboyant, it shows some interesting details such as an O-III “arm” protruding towards the north from the nebula envelope.

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Description: Version with RGB stars, taken from an image I had captured last year

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The Crab nebula in Technicolor :), Francesco Meschia