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Soul Nebula IC1848, matthew.maclean
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Soul Nebula IC1848

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Soul Nebula IC1848

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I had a couple clear nights last week to work on the Soul nebula as a complement to my recent Heart nebula. Most of this was collected right around the full moon, which isn't ideal of course, but the L-Extreme does filter out most of the moon glow quite well.

I prefer thinking about this nebula as the "Little Buffalo" instead of the Soul. That's what it looks like to me when oriented like this, and - living in Western NY state - it seems much more appropriate.

I had a little fun making another artificial SHO version too. I tried to make the transition from gold to blue a little less abrupt here. I am usually not a fan of the grayscale hydrogen-alpha type images, but I thought this one looked really interesting, so I uploaded that view also.

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B

Description: dual-band to SHO coloring

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C

Description: Hydrogen alpha (red) extraction, starless

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Soul Nebula IC1848, matthew.maclean