- The image shows the Spider and Fly Nebulae.
- The image used a special color palette (Foraax).
- The image took over 20 hours to create.
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Steve Leonard from Markham, Ontario, Canada
The Spider Nebula (Sharpless 2–234, at right) weaves a tangled web next to the Fly, also known as NGC 1931 (at left). The imager used a dynamic Foraax palette on 20¼ hours of SHORGB data to bring out detail across the wide dynamic range of the scene, yielding detail in the objects’ bright cores.
