Apep
From GO 5842: What lies beyond the inner spiral of Apep?
Principal Investigator: Yinuo Han
Apep is another star system producing a very interestingly shaped nebula around it. These data just came out today, and I spent much of the day processing them. It was certainly challenging, requiring going down to the level 1 data to get the details at the bright center to not be saturated (overexposed).
Anyway, the texture seen in the two outer shells reminds me of a sherpa blanket. I don't think there's anything else quite like it. I really wanted that texture to pop, and it was most pronounced on the F1500W data, so I used that for luminosity to give it extra visibility, along with some typical sharpening, clarity, and texture adjustments from the Photoshop camera raw tool.
Again, the resolution is not high for this image. Just how it is.
"screen" layer mode: MIRI F770W
"luminosity" layer mode: MIRI F1500W
Red: MIRI F2550W
Green: MIRI F1500W
Blue: MIRI F770W
North is 3.5° clockwise from up.
Apep
From GO 5842: What lies beyond the inner spiral of Apep?
Principal Investigator: Yinuo Han
Apep is another star system producing a very interestingly shaped nebula around it. These data just came out today, and I spent much of the day processing them. It was certainly challenging, requiring going down to the level 1 data to get the details at the bright center to not be saturated (overexposed).
Anyway, the texture seen in the two outer shells reminds me of a sherpa blanket. I don't think there's anything else quite like it. I really wanted that texture to pop, and it was most pronounced on the F1500W data, so I used that for luminosity to give it extra visibility, along with some typical sharpening, clarity, and texture adjustments from the Photoshop camera raw tool.
Again, the resolution is not high for this image. Just how it is.
"screen" layer mode: MIRI F770W
"luminosity" layer mode: MIRI F1500W
Red: MIRI F2550W
Green: MIRI F1500W
Blue: MIRI F770W
North is 3.5° clockwise from up.