APOD: 2021 July 5 - IC 4592: The Blue Horsehead Reflection Nebula

Good morning Maj William W. 'Bill' Price and this APOD is an intriguing celestial occurrence! I did some quick research, found a video, which showed how this image came to be... As it is formed of very fine dust particles, which each have a color associated with them, it takes great patience with a fairly new version of Adobe Photoshop or its equivalent to make a long series of color corrections to bring out the blue hue of the blue, reddish colors against the blackness of space behind the image... I won't show the video as it is over 10 minutes long and is tedious to watch... I use an older version of Photoshop, that does not have the filters necessary to do this myself, but I was somewhat fascinated with the process... Have a great Monday, Bill!
Kerry
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Does look a bit like a horses head.

Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Monday, July 5, 2021 entitled "IC 4592: The Blue Horsehead Reflection Nebula."

Image: IC 4592 - The Blue Horsehead Reflection Nebula - Image Credit & Copyright - Adam Block, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona

Thank you my astronomy advocate friend Bill for posting yet another wonderful APOD image.
Horse refers to equine species representatives, is a homonym for hoarse and is a nickname for heroin in

APOD background
'Explanation: Do you see the horse's head? What you are seeing is not the famous Horsehead nebula toward Orion but rather a fainter nebula that only takes on a familiar form with deeper imaging. The main part of the here imaged molecular cloud complex is a reflection nebula cataloged as IC 4592. Reflection nebulas are actually made up of very fine dust that normally appears dark but can look quite blue when reflecting the visible light of energetic nearby stars. In this case, the source of much of the reflected light is a star at the eye of the horse. That star is part of Nu Scorpii, one of the brighter star systems toward the constellation of the Scorpion (Scorpius). A second reflection nebula dubbed IC 4601 is visible surrounding two stars to the right of the image center."

Thank you my friend Sgt (Join to see) for mentioning me.

POCO ~ Running Horse
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