Thread: Wiruna Lobster
View Single Post
  #2  
Old 08-06-2023, 01:39 PM
strongmanmike's Avatar
strongmanmike (Michael)
Highest Observatory in Oz

strongmanmike is offline
 
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Canberra
Posts: 17,662
Great shot of this magnificent nebula Pete, well done

Superb colouring too. Along with the nearby and slightly closer (5500Lyrs vs 8800Lyrs) Cats Paw, there is very little colour variation to be had within the nebula, so while some subtle colour variation can be enhanced in each nebula, because of their great distance, in the plane of the Milky Way and the resulting heavy dust extinction, both are probably most accurately displayed as essentially mostly red/orange, like you have here

This is my favourite rendering of it, done with the Dark Energy Camera on the 4-meter Blanco Telescope...looks pretty similar to yours actually ..great to zoom right in on too!

Mike
Reply With Quote