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Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex in HaRGB, Harold Soto
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Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex in HaRGB

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Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex in HaRGB

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Rho Ophiuchi cloud Complex in HaRGB, Rho Ophiuchi is full of color and nebulosity. It was a challenge to apply background extraction in PixInsight without removing to much data, after several attempts I decided to select very few selection points on selected areas. During editing it is very easy to go crazy with the saturation, but I decided to give it a more natural tone and accentuate all the Ha regions. The Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex is one of the nearest star forming regions to the Sun. It lies at a distance of about 427 light years from Earth. Visible from all inhabited locations on both hemispheres for at least a part of the year.

Facts:
Rho Ophiuchi (AB) was discovered to be a double by German-born British astronomer William Herschel in the 18th century. The fainter binary, Rho Ophiuchi DE, was discovered to be a binary system by American astronomer Sherburne Wesley Burnham in 1894. Burnham made his observations at Lick Observatory in California.

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Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex in HaRGB, Harold Soto

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