[Can you see it?]

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Wow! Check out this epic image taken by Ross Clark with the Radian Triad Ultra Filter! You can save so much time by shooting Ha, Hb, Sii and Oiii at the same time with this filter.
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"The Skull in the Rosette Nebula, Monoceros

Can you see the skull?

I’d heard people calling the Rosette Nebula the Skull Nebula for ages but I really couldn’t see it, until one day I was processing it and rotating the field of view to see which orientation I liked and all of a sudden there it was

My image here shows the skull orientation, the central hollow in the O3 region being the skulls left eye. The right one being off to the left of this image with the Ha red arch in the centre being the bridge of the nose, the lines along the right then look like the lines that can often be seen in human skulls, it’s hard not to see the skull once you’ve seen it

9x600s stacked in DSS with full calibration. Processed in Photoshop 2020

Images taken in my Bortle 7 back garden aiming South in to the very worst of my LP

ZWO ASI1600MC Pro, Unity Gain, -15C
Canon EF L 70-200mm f/2.8 at 200mm f/4
Altair Astro EF Adaptor
iOptron CEM25P
Pegasus Pocket Powerbox
ZWO ASI120MM-S guide camera
ZWO 60mm guide scope
Radian Triad Ultra Quadband 2” OSC Filter

Images captured by APT, guided by PHD2"

Image Credit: @ astrophotoross