Tuesday, 7 March 2023

Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here - Dante's Inferno!

Well, may be not quite, but when I process an Ha-rich image of the Orion Nebula like the one above, it always makes me think of it.  This is a starless version, which some people prefer to images which are covered in stars, often overpowering the delicate features of the nebula. Personally, I like some stars in an image as without them I think it seems a little artificial.  So I'll often do a bit of star reduction to make them as little less dominant and distracting. Here's a version with some stars and :

And here's a much wider version showing the Running Man Nebula a little better:

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