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Originally Posted by RobF
After another 10 looks at this, I think what draws me in is the detail in the roiling gas in the foreground. People often spend so much time on the HH and gas streamers behind that perhaps they overlook this. The effect is almost like soft pink/red CO2 spilling out over some kind of giant stage set. Beautiful.
And I love the huge diffraction spike on Alnitak. Just frames and sets the whole thing off very nicely. Just stunning.
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Its less that people overlook it, and more that they do not obtain sufficient data to show it... Phil's telescope used to capture this image is fairly fast at F/3.3, that, coupled with a lot of exposure time has allowed him to show off the regions "hidden wonders"