The Elephant, the Flying Bat, the Giant Squid and the Seahorse in an ocean of ionized hydrogen (Jérémie)

The Elephant, the Flying Bat, the Giant Squid and the Seahorse in an ocean of ionized hydrogen

I once tried - and failed - to fish and catch the Giant Squid. I decided to give it a go with a short focal length, a large pixel size (the 5,6 microns of the EOS Ra sensor) and a nice dark sky that I can only enjoy when leaving Paris.
After a night I could start to see the Squid on the synthetic Oiii layer, when really stretching the signal; after the second night it became sufficient to compose a nice image, though there are definitely better ones showing it in much more details. But I did not have time for that...

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