NGC 281 ... Pacman Nebula
NGC 281 ... commonly known as the Pacman Nebula because of its vague resemblance to the famous video game character ... is an emission nebula found in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia. Discovered in 1883 by Edward Emerson Barnard, it is approximately 9000 light years from earth.
This is the result of 900 ten second images taken with the Seestar telescope ... stacked and processed in PixInsight, Nik Collection plugin for Photoshop, and Topaz software.
NGC 281 ... Pacman Nebula
NGC 281 ... commonly known as the Pacman Nebula because of its vague resemblance to the famous video game character ... is an emission nebula found in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia. Discovered in 1883 by Edward Emerson Barnard, it is approximately 9000 light years from earth.
This is the result of 900 ten second images taken with the Seestar telescope ... stacked and processed in PixInsight, Nik Collection plugin for Photoshop, and Topaz software.