Working off my backlog of imaged deep space objects, I present the Spider and the Fly in narrowband and broadband combined. Well, if you pay attention to the dates of acquisition it really wasn't part of my backlog :)
This image was a bear to process as there were some high clouds present while I captured the Oiii and Sii data. This caused significant background noise in the image and I had to really push the noise reduction in my post-processing. Not too happy with the result, but here it is anyway.
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| The Spider and the Fly Feb 27, 28 and Mar 3 GT102 and ASI2600mm Camera f/5.5 10 hours |
Taken over three nights (Feb 27, 28 and Mar 3) for about 10 hours of total integration time.
The Spider is about 10,000 light-years distant while the Fly is a bit closer to us at 7,000 light-years. They reside in the constellation Auriga. Composed of clouds of gas and dust, this region is the site of new stellar birth. The glowing nebula is caused by the excitation of the gas by clusters of massive, relatively newly formed, stars located near the centers of the nebulosity. The large nebula on the right side of the image is the Spider and the small nebula is the Fly.
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