The Tadpole Galaxy is a disrupted barred spiral galaxy located 420 million light-years from Earth in the northern constellation Draco. Its most dramatic feature is a massive trail of stars about 280,000 light-years long; the size of the galaxy has been attributed to a merger with a smaller galaxy that is believed to have occurred about 100 million years ago. The galaxy is filled with bright blue star clusters.
Image:
Processing:
I created this image with 3 filters taken by the Hubble ACS camera: near- infrared (814nm), orange (606nm), and blue( 475nm).
- cropped to remove bad pixels
- star alignment
- noise reduction
- channel combination:
- R: near-infrared (814nm)
- G: Orange (606nm)
- B: blue (475nm)
- Masked Stretch
- remove blue bias using curves transformation
- push galaxy, mute background using curves transformation
- HDR to bring out detail in the core
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great work