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Northern Sky Narrowband Survey - True colors
2025-10-06
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 4.0, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
About this work
212° stereographic projection of the entire region surveyed by the Northern Sky Narrowband Survey in nearly true colors. Emission lines as well as the stars, were not subtracted. The view was composed of 168,260 single exposures with a total exposure time of approximately 2,084 hours.
The Milky Way extends from the left to the right side. The circular double band is the ecliptic.
Other color composites of the same view
Emission lines [OIII], Hα, and [SII]
Emission line Hα and continuum
Hα in pseudo-colors
Continuum without Hα and with partially subtracted stars
