«Cosmic Butterfly, The Great Eta Carinae Nebula» by Matt Hughes

AstroBin’s Image of the Day: «Cosmic Butterfly, The Great Eta Carinae Nebula (SHO)» by Matt Hughes Date: 2024, January 31 Image Source Link: Description: “Had an unexpected few clear nights and wanted to capture the Great Nebula in Carina, NGC 3372. Its a huge area of HA with strong emissions in SII and OIII. I tried my best to highlight the three emission lines and how they overlapped and integrated each other shown with the different colour tones. This image is cropped as the more I stared at it the more I could see a butterfly... bringing out my pareidolia here. I made a combined Luminance image integrated with all three master SHO frames. Stretched each filter with GHS, noise reduction, Imagecombination then added the sharpened luminance image. Photoshop for colour mapping and tone work back to Pixinsight for some curve work.“ Matt Hughes Music by Andrey Klimkovsky @AndreyKlimkovsky Track «Deep Cosmos 2020 I» NEANE Records: Bamdcamp: Video editing by pictuREflection @pictuREflection #CosmicButterfly #GreatEtaCarinaeNebula #Nebulae #EtaCarinae #Astrophotography #Matt Hughes #AndreyKlimkovsky #Astronomy #Ambient #music