HaLRGB Nebula 020

HaLRGB Nebula 020
Digital 3D Art
Blender
Photoshop
Copyright 2026 Erik Stitt

A Stellar Nursery from some far off galaxy perhaps.

It may not look it or it might even look a bit boring but, creating accurate nebulae that mimic nature is extremely tedious and difficult. Even though I've created a very technical generator, every nuance must still be considered. Lighting, cloud density/roughness, placement of stars, correct true color palette, translucency, all of it. Just this one took over a week of many renderings to adjust and get right. There is three layers of volume to create this cloud structure. The red interior followed by the blue layer and lastly, the off white layer. Each a different density. Read: Tons of Color Ramps and Math Nodes.

I use the Astrobin site for real life reference. Just search "HaLRGB or just LRGB Nebula" and you will get true color nebula photos. They are not green or purple or the "Hubble Palette (SHO, Sulfer, Hydrogen, Oxygen)" in real life. NASA and some other astronomers augment the colors to see details and structure more easily so, don't be fooled. Nebulae are just basically, Red (Hydrogen Alpha or Ha), Blue (OIII or Oxygen) and sometimes a little Orange-Yellow (S2 or Sulfer). That's it.

Astrobin link: https://app.astrobin.com

Thanks for lookin',

Erik

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