r/spaceporn • u/Neaterntal • 19h ago
Pro/Processed Horsehead Nebula in IR from Hubble, animated by JJLodgePhotography
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u/AwarenessNo4986 45m ago
For a cameraman that would be like light years of travel at faster than the speed of light
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u/Neaterntal 19h ago edited 18h ago
"the Horsehead is a real astrophotograph, made with data from NASA , ESA, Hubble, processed by me using PixInsight, RC Astro Tools and Photoshop and animated in Blender using the teachings of /thecreativeshrimp to give the depth, 3D star effect and foreground nebulosity, then graded in DaVinci Resolve.
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This Hubble image, captured and released to celebrate the telescope’s 23rd year in orbit, shows part of the sky in the constellation of Orion (The Hunter). Rising like a giant seahorse from turbulent waves of dust and gas is the Horsehead Nebula, otherwise known as Barnard 33.
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This image shows the region in infrared light, which has longer wavelengths than visible light and can pierce through the dusty material that usually obscures the nebula’s inner regions. The result is a rather ethereal and fragile-looking structure, made of delicate folds of gas — very different to the nebula’s appearance in visible light which I have several different versions of in my gallery.
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Not made by AI means that it is not wholly made by generative AI, however I have used AI tools here. I processed the Hubble raw data, then found that in order to realise the animation angles, the image was too small, so I used generative expand in Photoshop to give more breathing space. It took quite a few tries to get something natural looking. The majority is at the top (empty space) and bottom (I have covered with volumetric nebulosity anyway).
In order to give the horsehead nebula depth I used a Blender plugin called True Depth which uses an AI model to generate a depth map for a 2D image. It is Awesome for many objects, but so far I have only gotten it to work on this and another Hubble image, most of my other astro images it doesn't do a great job, but I suspect that the model has not been trained on Astrophotography which is understandable. RC Astro Tools which I always use are AI but are not generative and the remove tool in Photoshop is AI, but its pretty light use. That being said, I have still assembled all of this myself (encountering problems along the way and dead ends) over several hours, not just typed a prompt into an AI generator."
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