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Community photo entitled  by Jacob VanOpdorp on 06/03/2021 at Jefferson, Colorado, United States

On 06/03/2021 01:30 am by Jacob VanOpdorp| Jefferson, Colorado, United States

This image is multiple exposures taken of the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex. This is also my first deep sky image taken on my tracker and I am very pleased with the results. I'm fascinated by this object because of the dark arms that are coming out of the left side. Those arms are interacting with the galactic center of the Milky Way which also fascinates me.

I used a Canon Rebel T7i with a 75-300mm f/4-5.6 lens. I tracked the stars with my Star Adventurer 2i star tracker to take longer exposures.

This image consists of 25 images that were stacked in Deep Sky Stacker. Each image was 5 minutes long. I edited the images in Adobe Photoshop and increased partial exposure in Adobe Lightroom. I stretched the image twice, added saturation, exposure, increased the highlights and shadows, and subtracted the light pollution.