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By Alan Silverstein, ajs@frii.com (page updated Sun Nov 13 22:11:25 MST 2011)
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European Southern Observatory launched the "Hidden Treasures" project. They made available a huge cache of archived images just to see what creative astrophotographers could come up with...
That lucky individual is Igor Chekalin, an accomplished 30-something astrophotographer who lives in Taganrog, Russia. Chekalin's winning entry is a richly textured view of Messier 78, a reflection nebula located a few degrees northeast of Orion's Belt. He combined just a handful of frames to achieve the view seen here: five 3-minute red exposures and three each in blue and green.
