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Sep 16, 2021
4 minutes
APY Masterclass
How to enrich a nebula’s colours
Use editing software to bring out hydrogen-alpha colours in Orion
My ‘Questions’ image was shortlisted in the ‘Skyscapes’ category at the Astronomy Photography of the Year competition in 2020. I created it after deciding to take an image linking our planet to the sky, but without featuring the usual Milky Way core. I started by shooting a mountain panorama during the Blue Hour – when the last remaining sunlight casts a blue glow into the dusk – to get maximum detail, and then set up my gear and waited for darkness and the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex.
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