Spiral Galaxy - NGC 1300 The Pleiades This specific image was reprocessed

This specific image was reprocessed using 3 main RGB channels related to narrowband filters of wavelengths of 435nm for the blue channel 550nm for the green channel and 814nm for the red channel also supported by a fourth additional channel representing the emission of ionized hydrogen(h-alpha) with the 656nm wavelength

The final image is the result of an international collaboration between Jakob Sahner (Germany)

This shot was taken along the amazing black beach in front of the famous mountain of Vestrahorn during a magical night of shining Aurora

releasing gas into the relatively empty region of surrounding space

Jakob moved over to Photoshop to manually fix a lot of the visible problems in the image (even with the new approach

Spiral Galaxy - NGC 1300 The Pleiades This specific image was reprocessedMajestic NGC 1300 is a marvelous example of a barred spiral galaxy. Unlike in other spiral galaxies where the starry arms curl outward from the center of the galaxy, NGC 1300's arms twist away from the ends of a straight bar of stars that stretches across the galaxy's core. Observational evidence suggests that our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is a barred spiral as well. NGC 1300's spiral arms include blue clusters of young stars, pink clouds that are