Scarlet Lightning
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Photographer
Gary Lopez
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Prize
1st Place / Nature/Astrophotography
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Date of Photograph
2020
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Technical Info
336mm refractor, cooled monochrome, RGB visible light plus Ha emissions, 20.8 hours total exposure
This sphere of glowing gas filaments, about 150 light years across, is the remnant of a “super nova”, a star that exploded about 40,000 years ago, that now covers an area of the night sky larger than six full moons.
