Pacman in Hubble Palette

[Starwiz]

NGC 281, also known as the Pacman Nebula, although I can't imagine Edward Emerson Barnard calling it that when he discovered it in 1883. 

Imaged from Malta during the last couple of weeks.

John

[MarkAR]

Very good close view and nicely framed. Little bit saturated for my taste and some magenta showing quite strongly in the stars. Overall though you've got some superb detail, well done.

[Starwiz]

8 hours ago, MarkAR said:

Very good close view and nicely framed. Little bit saturated for my taste and some magenta showing quite strongly in the stars. Overall though you've got some superb detail, well done.

Thanks.

It's the first time I've tried placing stars over the top of the SHO stars without removing them first, so I can probably improve on this.  I was previously using Straton to remove the stars, but it seems to mess up the nebula quite a bit and makes it look really noisy when I zoom in.  The saturation level looks different on different screens, something I've noticed before.  It looks over-saturated on one of my laptops but not on the other, and different again on my phone.

John