Previous versions of the above image won the Deep Sky section of the CWAS David Malin awards in 2016
and gained the NASA "Astronomy Picture of the Day" (APOD) on May 27th 2016.
The image above has been reprocessed with insights based on Dr David Malin's critique on the awards night.
It now shows the hot blue stars of Trumpler 14 (and others within the nebula) with improved fidelity, along
with reduced processing artifacts (that were unintentional) seen in earlier iterations.
I hope you enjoy the view!
Equipment set-up
Alluna Optics RC16 with FFC
SBIG
Baader Planetarium
Takahashi
Takahashi Collimating telescope
Software Bisque
Approx 4 hours of Ha RGB. Processing with MaxIm CCD, Pixinsight, Photoshop CS6
Author and Copyright, Peter J Ward 2016
Can you see all 26 grey scales above?