The Owl Nebula, approximately 2000 light-years away, is located in the northern constellation Ursa Major. The galaxy in the lower right is the Surfboard galaxy, a barred spiral galaxy seen edge-on. It is 46 light-years away.

This image was made with a Nikon Z7 II and a Nikon 600mm f/4 VR TC lens at f/4. A total of 142 15-second exposures at ISO 800 were made for 35.5 minutes of total exposure time. Star tracking was with a Fornax Lightrack II.

The frames were registered in DeepSkyStacker and subsequently sigma-clip averaged using program astro-sca. The resulting sigma-clipped file was then processed using program astro-color-stretch. Vignetting and Linear gradients were corrected prior to stretching. Image stretching consisted of a single-pass asinh stretch followed by a single S-curve adjustment and color correction.

Additional sharpening was performed using 40 iterations of Richardson–Lucy deconvolution, followed by four-level Discrete Meyer wavelet enhancement. All of these processing operations were all performed using astro-color-stretch.

Some final refinements were done using Capture One, followed by modest additional noise reduction and sharpening using Topaz DeNoise AI.