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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
For those of you struggling to make it out in the natural LRGB version (it has an extremely low surface brightness) that I processed to respect the comparative dynamic range, I have added a less respectful enhanced/stretched version, to better reveal the Malin Stellar Stream Interesting that it appears slightly square ended rather than a smooth curve and apart from it being even fainter, I needed just a little more space at the top left to make the entire orbiting stream (it encircles the entire galaxy!) more obvious, doh!
4.2m William Herschel telescope image attached (2 hr exposure in sub arc sec seeing at La Palma)
Detailed paper on it HERE
Mike |
You're correct Mike -
it's not IFN - Integrated flux nebula -
there is a picture here of the Malin Stellar Stream but
its flipped horizontally compared to yours.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comme...ield_image_of/
cheers
Allan