Counted 47 nebulae in my last photo session and that blew my mind

I set out just trying to get a decent shot of the Orion region ended up with 47 separate nebulae visible in one frame. Has anyone else noticed way more detail than they expected once they stacked enough exposures?

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jason_stone26d ago

Stop overselling it, most of those are just noise artifacts.

quinnj2426d ago

Come on, you gotta admit some of those signals are legit. That spike at 47 MHz lines up perfectly with Jupiter's plasma torus emissions, not just random static. And the narrowband burst around 1420 kHz is textbook hydrogen line activity, hardly a "noise artifact" if you look at the waterfall. Maybe you're just not filtering your data right, but stripping away the background hiss reveals stuff that's clearly structured. Even that weird chirp at 3.2 GHz has a repeating pattern that screams artificial source, not your typical RFI.