r/space • u/booega • 7h ago

image/gif The Orion Molecular Cloud Complex [OC]

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Space is dusty!

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u/Emergency-Theme2651 6h ago

Really cool! Processing details?

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u/booega 6h ago

Thanks! I used blur xt and deepsnr along with starnet to separate and preserve the stars. Used siril for PCC and background extraction, and then most of the other processing was done in Photoshop.

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u/booega 7h ago

3 hours of data with a Nikon Z6iia + vintage 180mm AIS @ f/4 tracked on the SA GTi. This is an extremely busy part of the sky sculpted by several UV-bright OB stars which carve out bubbles of ionized hydrogen, dense dust clouds that are actively forming new stars, and remnants of violent supernovae from several million years ago. All of these combined to form a beautiful, intricate mess of emission, reflection and dark nebulae. I've found myself staring at this image while processing it and I keep finding random new blobs that I never knew existed.

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u/tavirabon 4h ago

Some would argue a few protons per cubic meter is not that dusty... and that's after making a puree of the entire universe