The False Comet

Carlos Milovic

Well-known member
This zone is so bright that stretching the image and bringing out the details was so easy... but the nebulosities were buried inside all the galactic dust, so the real challenge was to enhance them. I hope you like the result.

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For those that are not familiar with the object, it is located in Scorpio's tail. We see in the frame NGC6231, near Zeta Sco.

Canon 135mm f/2.0 L lens at f/4.0 with a modified Canon 300D camera. ISO 200.
Autoguided over an Alt5 mount.
8x 15 minutes and 4x 3 minutes..
Antilhue Observatory, Chile. May, 2nd. 2008.
(Lens, mount and observatory owned by Daniel Verschatse, www.verschatse.cl)

Preprocessed with DeepSkyStacker 3.2.1, Processed with PixInsight 1.1
 
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