©2009 Richard Murray Notes: The Tarantula is a giant emission nebula within our neighboring galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud. It is so bright that if it were the same distance as the Orion Nebula it would cast shadows! The image above is a stack...

I can't give you all of the particulars of how I processed this image because my methods vary with each one but I certainly can give you an overview so here it goes: CCD Stack - The luminance images were loaded into CCDStack and calibrated with...