Tuesday, September 3, 2024

The Omega Nebula

 M17, the Omega Nebula (among other names). M17 is one of the brightest and most massive stellar nurseries in the galaxy. The open cluster of stars, NGC 6618, powers the nebula. This image is a stack of 380 x 10s integrations. I stacked and processed in Siril, and tweaked in Affinity. It was quite a challenge to bring out the subtleties in the nebulosity without blowing out the central region. I ended up with this image, which looks rather like the fireball of an explosion.



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