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Community photo entitled Embryo Nebula in Perseus 967 ly away by Andy Dungan on 11/23/2025 at Near Cotopaxi, Colorado USA

Embryo Nebula in Perseus 967 ly away

On 11/23/2025 01:00 am by Andy Dungan | Website | Near Cotopaxi, Colorado USA

This is such an unusual item to photograph. It has more color and shape than so many other nebulae. It also has dark nebulae (the dark parts with no stars). It isn’t large. Stellarium says 9’x7’. One thing interesting about astrophotography is you can’t easily determine the difference in the size of an object (as viewed from earth) by looking at a pic. This is why I enjoy doing widefield astrophotography as well as deep space, like this pic.

ASI585MC Pro g200, AskarV@600f7.5, 89 10min pics (14.8 hours) exposure, +darks/biases/flats
AM5/ASIair+, EAF, Askar OAG with ASI174mini for guiding

PixInsight (PI) 100%.

I now have absolute proof of how much difference using PixInsight to process astrophotos makes. A year ago I did this same pic (see https://ecp.earthsky.org/community-photos/entry/72657/). The difference is startling. I used exactly the same gear to take the pics and I had 78 pics last year (just a few less than this year). The only substantial difference was PI. It just makes so many things possible that regular photo software can’t do as well.