1,500 light-years from Earth, in deep space, lies a nebula known as the Flaming star Nebula. This image is the result of over 25 hours of exposure, captured from my backyard on the dark island of Falster. In reality, the nebula glows a deep red, as it is composed primarily of hydrogen — yet when viewed through a telescope with the naked eye, it appears as a bluish cloud, because our eyes are very poor at perceiving red colors in the dark.
For this reason, I have rendered the image to reflect how the nebula would appear to us on a clear, starry night.
The chaotic structures, and the way they rise toward the top of this colossal cloud, resemble something that might belong in Dante’s *Divine Comedy*.
This is my first deepsky image of the season, since the weather has been really bad this time around. Hopefully there will be many more clear nights.
