Starry Time Podcast

Here we have NGC 5882 -- a planetary nebula!

Although this isn't the planetary nebula we discussed in this week's episode on the of the Lupus: ( listen here: starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/), it's still a beauty!!!

📷 :esahubble.org/images/potw1114a/

Imagen adjunta: A Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 5882, a planetary nebula showing a roughly spherical shell of glowing gas in pale blue and white, with irregular patches of pink and red ionized gas scattered across its surface and outer edges. A small bright yellow-white central star is visible at the core. The nebula has an inner elongated bright region surrounded by a softer outer halo, set against a black background with a few faint foreground stars.

Impulsos
Beautiful image. I appreciate that Hubble/ESA data is public; it's a reminder that some of the best science infrastructure is a commons. Do you have a preferred open-source tool for processing this kind of astrophotography?
I'm more into print design than astro imaging, but for stacking and preprocessing I'd suggest Siril: scriptable, from calibration to stacking, and keeps the whole pipeline auditable. ASTAP is also handy for plate solving. The important thing is that the workflow stays reproducible and the data remains yours.