To capture this image, we used a WO Z103 telescope, the ZWO ASI 294 MC-P camera, and the WO 6AIII (0.8) flattener/reducer lens.

To edit the image, the following steps were done:

Cropping: Cropping the image removes noise that tend to build up on the edge on the image.
Background Reduction: This makes the background of the image (in this case the blackness of space) more uniform in the image.
Color Calibration: This, as the name implies, correct the colors with respect to each other.
Noise Reduction: When you zoom in on the image, it becomes very ‘static-y.’ This process seeks to blend this static together.
Stretching: While there are distinct colors in the photos, the are all piled up at the dark end of the histogram. Here we ‘stretch’ the colors over the lighter ranges of the histogram so we can actually see them.
Contrast Enhancement: This creates greater difference between the lights and darks, making details even more pronounced.