Fighting Dragons of Ara - a photo on Flickriver

            Some astronomy images leave me wondering if I can actually find the object (named in the title) in the picture.  Like finding objects in clouds in our daytime skies, objects in astronomy pictures are sometimes easy to find and sometimes not.  Admittedly, my first view of images from this scene gave me a similar feeling - I guessed because of the thick field of stars.  So in processing, I removed the stars and BAM!  There were the dragons and the egg they were fighting over.

Calibrated images of the Fighting Dragons of Ara and the Dragon's Egg Nebula were provided by iTelescope.net.  In addition to providing access to their telescopes, iTelescope.net provides subscribing members with a combination of premium image sets (with the rights to use & post them) and webinars that show how to process them.  Itelescope.net captured the images using their T71 telescope based in the Rio Hurtado Valley, Chile.  This was especially helpful because the Dragons of Ara are visible in the Southern Hemisphere where I live in Colorado.  After capturing, I handled the post-processing side with Astro Pixel Processor, Photoshop, Star Xterminator, Topaz Sharpen and DeNoise AI.

Taken in: Chile / Coquimbo / Rio Hurtado (show map)

Taken on: September 24, 2023

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Astro Pixel Processor

Astronomy

Chile

Clouds

Clouds Only

Dragon's Egg

Dragon's Egg Nebula

Dragons

Emission Nebula

Fighting Dragons of Ara

Galaxy

LRGB

Milky Way

NGC 6164

NGC 6188

No Stars

Rim Nebula

Southern Hemisphere

Star Forming Nebula

Star Xterminator

T71

Takahashi Epsilon 180

Telescope

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