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Cone & Fox Fur, +2

Two years after capturing the hydrogen channel of this image and five months after the last time I was able to do any astro-photography, I have finally managed to finish this image of the Cone and Fox Fur Nebulae: You might notice that this doesn’t look exactly like the NASA APOD image I referenced in my last post (https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap161224.html).  Aside from the rotation, it is mostly different in that this is a narrowband image, while the APOD image is (or appears to be) a broadband/natural color image.  In both cases the dominant features are composed of hydrogen (in red), but […]