FTN image makes Astronomy Picture of the Day

M27

Nik Symanek for APOD

An image taken with LCOGT’s Faulkes Telescope North was the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day for June 26th 2008. You can view the APOD site here:

 http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/

The image of the planetary nebula M27 was taken by top UK astrophotographer Nik Szymanek. The final image was a mosaic of 4 frames (each frame made up stacked images), using the narrow band filters H alpha, H beta and OIII.

If you would like to have a go at making your own color images from astronomical data files, have a look out our How-to make images with Photoshop article