tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54544526173159250912024-03-13T02:01:50.731+00:00West Yorkshire AS Picture Gallerybrajenghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08063513411542822427noreply@blogger.comBlogger157125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454452617315925091.post-38386474868547259242019-02-18T16:31:00.000+00:002019-02-18T16:31:40.369+00:00NGC2237 - The Rosette Nebula in Monoceros<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4GaLSJv0NpiQWhJfH8oilrHAVz8O9s7aZzzJ9yJidK9An4YFwz1MaQnlU_V1F_h0OygfTanp18_uazi2M4PmaCX0j5TSMHk-bS-fxH1nj9oKOS1YYMTZPEzvsOFgR3FgSXhxa4vLDjHQx/s1600/NGC2237+-+Ha+-+Mono.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4GaLSJv0NpiQWhJfH8oilrHAVz8O9s7aZzzJ9yJidK9An4YFwz1MaQnlU_V1F_h0OygfTanp18_uazi2M4PmaCX0j5TSMHk-bS-fxH1nj9oKOS1YYMTZPEzvsOFgR3FgSXhxa4vLDjHQx/s320/NGC2237+-+Ha+-+Mono.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This is NGC2237, The Rosette Nebula in the constellation of
Monoceros.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Rosette Nebula is a large spherical H II region located
near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Monoceros region of the Milky
Way Galaxy. The open cluster NGC 2244 is closely associated with the
nebulosity, the stars of the cluster having been formed from the nebula's
matter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The nebula is around 130 lightyears across and about 5,200
lightyears distant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Imaged with my SkyWatcher ED72 scope and ZWO ASI183MM PRO
cmos camera, through a Hydrogen Alpha filter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">16x300sec lights, with Darks and Flats. I will try and add
colour in the coming week, weather permitting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09940287994099218887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454452617315925091.post-75169003168792197422019-02-18T16:30:00.000+00:002019-02-18T16:32:28.746+00:00IC443 - Jellyfish Nebula in Gemini<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">This IC443, The Jellyfish Nebula in Gemini, imaged a couple
of nights ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">IC 443 (also known as Sharpless 248 (Sh2-248)) is a galactic
supernova remnant in the constellation Gemini, roughly 5,000 lightyears from
Earth, and is one of the best-studied cases of supernova remnants interacting
with surrounding molecular clouds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The remnant's age is still uncertain, although there is some
agreement that the supernova happened between 3,000 and 30,000 years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">IC 443 is an extended source, having an angular diameter of
50 arcmin (by comparison, the full moon is 30 arcmin across). At the estimated
distance of 5,000 lightyears from Earth, it corresponds to a physical size of
roughly 70 light years across.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">This image is comprised of 36x300sec exposures through a
Hydrogen-Alpha filter, representing 3 hours of total exposure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Stacked and processed in PixInsight, with final contrast
adjustments in Photoshop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">If the weather behaves, I will try and get the Sulphur and
Oxygen emissions and combine into a colour rendition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">PS. <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
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I manage to get the additional Sii and Oiii data so I could
add colour to my mono image of last week. As it turns out, there is very little
Oiii emissions from this particular nebula so there is not much in the blue
channel. The nebula is very strong in Ha and Sii so, in visible colours, it is
a predominantly orangey-ochre colour. To lift the colours a bit, I combined the
narrowband data with One Shot Colour data that I captured back in 2013, so I
could show the stars in their natural colours.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>Anyway, all in all, just under 10hours of total integration
time, plus Darks, Flats and Bias frames.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09940287994099218887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454452617315925091.post-88887198701175985362019-02-18T16:27:00.001+00:002019-02-18T16:27:16.062+00:00IC410 - The Tadpoles Nebula in Auriga<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioVlYQBp7vutsfxsIBF9iokpE41aEkKU0YIlBSIRX8Aa4yfAjH-nPzKacHj1WmKY32RWjTE03c5RU34B5MfRM1UUXPMT6pM8f628lQz03QjBanQJxtpff7-zKZmj5OFhxxuEftEgmFkEM8/s1600/IC410.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioVlYQBp7vutsfxsIBF9iokpE41aEkKU0YIlBSIRX8Aa4yfAjH-nPzKacHj1WmKY32RWjTE03c5RU34B5MfRM1UUXPMT6pM8f628lQz03QjBanQJxtpff7-zKZmj5OFhxxuEftEgmFkEM8/s320/IC410.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This is IC410, imaged a few nights ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">IC410 is a dusty emission nebula located in the
constellation of Auriga at about 12,000 lightyears from Earth. It is part of a
larger star forming region that also contains the Flaming Star Nebula. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The gas structures in this image are lit by the radiation
from the open star cluster NGC1893 that lies in the centre of the nebula. This
star cluster is about 4 million years old, but in astronomical terms it is
still very young, with hot, massive stars. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">At the bottom-left of the star cluster, two more dense structures
are visible. These are similar to the famous Pillar of Creation and they are
composed of dust and gas leftover from the formation of the star cluster and
are very likely to give birth to more stars in the future. As can be seen in
the image, these structures point away from the centre of the nebula; this is
because of the stellar winds and radiation pressure from the stars in NGC 1893.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Due to these structure's shape, the nebula is often referred
to as the Tadpoles Nebula.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This image was created by adopting the Hubble false-colour
palette for mapping narrowband emissions from Sulphur, Hydrogen Alpha and
Oxygen atoms to the red, green and blue channels respectively. So, the
cyan/blue colours are the Hydrogen Alpha , with the yellow/green colours representing
the Sulphur and the pale blue representing the Oxygen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Imaged over two nights, with just under 7 hours of total
integration time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">36x5mins Ha, 20x5mins Sii, 24x5mins Oiii, plus Darks Flats
and Bias frames. Stacked and processed in PixInsight, with final colour
balancing in Photoshop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09940287994099218887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454452617315925091.post-89691312341561205172019-01-28T15:12:00.001+00:002019-01-28T15:12:29.418+00:00Melotte 15<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMQaFq-j1JpoBh1587MbserYw84aDKEkCJewX8-1ojmJyniUmwmk-4UF7R88PwzsHwCHXHcSSmV-_8uV7gq1NkNWgQjiu9KnNOxs7S5zaLankC1Jvm9pDdq1qspFhERfTphY6SBrhsoGsn/s1600/Melotte15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMQaFq-j1JpoBh1587MbserYw84aDKEkCJewX8-1ojmJyniUmwmk-4UF7R88PwzsHwCHXHcSSmV-_8uV7gq1NkNWgQjiu9KnNOxs7S5zaLankC1Jvm9pDdq1qspFhERfTphY6SBrhsoGsn/s320/Melotte15.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This is Melotte 15, an Open Cluster in the constellation of
Cassiopeia, probably better known as "The Heart of the Heart"; it is
the centre cluster of stars within The Heart Nebula, IC1805 (also known as
Sharpless 2-190). Melotte 15 is about 7,500 light years away from Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When photographed under visible wavelength, the nebula's
intense red colour and its configuration are driven by the Hydrogen Alpha
radiation emanating from a small group of stars near the nebula's centre. This
open cluster of stars, known as Melotte 15, contains a few bright stars nearly
50 times the mass of our Sun, and many more dim stars that are only a fraction
of our Sun's mass. The grouping is only about 1.5 million years old and its
lifespan is expected to be as short as 3-6 million years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This image was created by adopting the Hubble false-colour
palette for mapping narrowband emissions from Sulphur, Hydrogen Alpha and
Oxygen atoms to the red, green and blue channels respectively. So, the
cyan/blue colours are the intense reds (Hydrogen Alpha) that you would normally
see when photographed under visible wavelength, with the yellow/orange colours
representing the Sulphur.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Imaged over two nights, with just over 6 hours of total
integration time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">25x5mins Ha, 25x5mins Sii, 25x5mins Oiii, plus Darks Flats
and Flat Darks. Stacked and processed in PixInsight, with final colour
balancing in Photoshop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09940287994099218887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454452617315925091.post-50521596855860210082018-12-12T10:16:00.002+00:002018-12-12T10:16:57.579+00:00NGC7380 - The Wizard Nebula in Cepheus.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMTVmVD6qxh-26wkbFsQQHCWZkszbmb0dKpH4Pp9EvPbGjJL_lyZsPQHQTOYp4dh8Lrh9asevI_VxvwAmbQVVQFH6D9xk7qTBjM334qW1h8aFc12bb2EmHrihHuUgFR9k7nHRxHADlSTZz/s1600/NGC7380+-+Wizard+Nebula.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMTVmVD6qxh-26wkbFsQQHCWZkszbmb0dKpH4Pp9EvPbGjJL_lyZsPQHQTOYp4dh8Lrh9asevI_VxvwAmbQVVQFH6D9xk7qTBjM334qW1h8aFc12bb2EmHrihHuUgFR9k7nHRxHADlSTZz/s320/NGC7380+-+Wizard+Nebula.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This NGC7380, The Wizard Nebula in Cepheus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Discovered in 1787 by Caroline Herschel, NGC 7380 (also
known as Sharpless 142 or Sh2-142) is the young open star cluster embedded
within the emission nebula known as the Wizard Nebula. Located some 7000-8000
light years away, the Wizard nebula surrounds the developing open star cluster.
Seen with foreground and background stars along the plane of our Milky Way
galaxy, the nebula can be located with a small telescope toward the
constellation of Cepheus (the King of Aethiopia). Although the nebula may last
only a few million years, some of the stars being formed may outlive our Sun. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The active star forming region spans about 100 light years,
making it appear larger than the angular extent of the Moon. A full moon would
easily fit inside this view of the young cluster and associated nebula. Imaged
with narrowband filters, the visible wavelength light from the nebula's
hydrogen (Ha), oxygen (Oiii), and sulphur(Sii) atoms are mapped into green,
blue, and red colours in the final image, a palette made popular in Hubble
Space Telescope images.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Imaged over two nights, with just under 7hours of total
integration time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">30x5mins Ha, 30x5mins Sii, 20x5mins Oiii plus Darks Flats
and Bias.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09940287994099218887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454452617315925091.post-44240740654572747292018-12-12T10:15:00.001+00:002018-12-12T10:15:22.664+00:00IC63 and IC59 - Reflection and Emission Nebulae<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLdNHoRWbeNkmWJsCCdXNxCEUHS8brBQ4lrFmx289z3leWLIl_-Uk69EDJi5j8HZ9zOmh5Sr_VERFBxL7AvgO5hDGBztDUT1dYb76kyIeGwoU9wOFO1XHP3sBlsolDfbahiol0FcTQKDaI/s1600/IC63+and+IC59.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLdNHoRWbeNkmWJsCCdXNxCEUHS8brBQ4lrFmx289z3leWLIl_-Uk69EDJi5j8HZ9zOmh5Sr_VERFBxL7AvgO5hDGBztDUT1dYb76kyIeGwoU9wOFO1XHP3sBlsolDfbahiol0FcTQKDaI/s320/IC63+and+IC59.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This is IC63 and IC59, taken over the course of 3
nights last week. IC59 and IC63 are Reflection and Emission Nebulae next to the
bright star, Gamma Cas, which is the star right at the centre of the “W” in the
constellation of Cassiopeia; around 550 lightyears away. Gamma Cas is an
eruptive variable binary star, known as a "shell star"; it currently
shines at mag. +2.15, making it the brightest star in Cassiopeia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">IC59 and IC63 are both around 3 lightyears from Gamma Cas.
IC63 is slightly nearer and, as a result, it's appears mostly red due to a
dominance of H-alpha emission from Gamma Cas. Because it is slightly further
away, IC59 exhibits much less H-alpha emission and appears mostly blue due to
reflected starlight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Both nebulae are very faint, with extremely low surface
brightness, and are easily washed out by the bright Gamma Cas (this is over 5
hours exposure on the Lights).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">20x300 sec Ha<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">21x180sec, plus 20x300 sec Sii<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This is IC 1795, an emission nebula located approximately
6000 light-years away in the constellation of Cassiopeia. It covers a field of
about 20 minutes of arc, or approximately 70 light years across.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">At approximately 6000 light-years away from us, this complex
extends across the Perseus arm of our Galaxy, the Milky Way. IC 1795 is a part
of the large nebula complex of star forming regions that lie at the edge of a
large molecular cloud.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Not far from the famous Double Cluster in Perseus, IC 1795
is easy to see and is in a very rich environment with IC 1805 (the Heart
Nebula), IC 1848, and many open clusters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This image was created by adopting the Hubble false-colour
palette for mapping narrowband emissions from sulphur, hydrogen and oxygen
atoms to the red, green and blue channels respectively.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Imaged over two night, this image comprises of over 7hrs of
exposures, not including the calibration frames. Conditions were mixed, with
many exposures being affected by cloud and mist. Stacked in PixIsight with each
exposure being weighted according to its overall quality. Processed in
PixInsight and Photoshop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ha: 40x180sec<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sii: 20x120sec plus 35x180sec<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Oiii: 20x120sec plus 40x180sec<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">NGC 7822 (also designated Sharpless 171, SH 2-171) is a
young irregular emission nebula and star forming region located in the
constellation Cepheus. The complex is estimated to be some 3,300 light-years
away. The nebula is home to the young star cluster Berkeley 59, whose
stars are just a few million years old. Berkeley 59 includes one of the hottest
stars discovered in the vicinity of our Sun, namely BD+66 1673, which is an
eclipsing binary system consisting of a very bright star that exhibits a
surface temperature of nearly 45000 K and a luminosity ~100000 times that of
the Sun. The star is one of the primary sources illuminating the nebula and
shaping the cosmic pillars of cold molecular gas and clouds of dark dust –
often called elephant trunks – which are powered by the young, hot stars, whose
powerful winds and radiation also sculpt and erode the dense pillar shapes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">This image consists of 138 exposures of 120
seconds each, totalling around 5 hours. Exposures: 40x120s Ha, 40x120s Oiii,
58x120s Sii, plus Darks, Flats and Bias frames. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"></span><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09940287994099218887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454452617315925091.post-64018799399274748932018-12-12T10:08:00.002+00:002018-12-12T10:08:55.653+00:00Messier 39<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">M39 (also known as NGC7092) is an open cluster embedded
within a rich star field in the constellation of Cygnus. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">M39 has an estimated age of 200 to 300 million years. All of
its confirmed members are still on the main sequence, still burning hydrogen in
their core, and have yet to evolve into red giants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It is a relatively loose cluster, with 30 confirmed members
occupying an area about 7 light years in diameter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">M39 can be located by star-hopping from Deneb to 4th
magnitude star Rho Cygni, which lies some 9 degrees to the east; the cluster
lies 3 degrees north of this star. The cluster can be resolved in 7×50
binoculars, which reveal its triangular shape, with three bright stars marking
the corners.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It is one of the nearest Messier objects to Earth, at a
distance of about 1,000 lightyears, and is approaching us at 28 km/s. Eeek!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Imaged in LRGB, with 25x5sec through a Luminance filter and
25x15sec each through Red, Green and Blue filters. Total integration, 20
minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09940287994099218887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454452617315925091.post-87478901282883380092018-12-12T10:07:00.002+00:002018-12-12T10:07:35.453+00:00IC1396 - The Elephant Trunk Nebula in Cepheus<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Elephant Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar
gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396, located in the
constellation Cepheus, about 2,400 light years away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The piece of the nebula shown in this image is the dark,
dense globule IC 1396A; it is commonly called the Elephant Trunk nebula because
of its appearance at visible light wavelengths, where there is a dark patch with
a bright, sinuous rim. The bright rim is the surface of a dense cloud that is
being illuminated and ionized by a very bright, massive star that is just to
the east of IC 1396A (ie, just off the top of the image). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The entire IC 1396 region is ionized by this massive star,
except for the dense globules that can protect themselves from the star's harsh
ultraviolet rays. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Elephant Trunk Nebula is now thought to be a site of
star formation, containing several very young stars that were discovered in infrared
images in 2003. Two older (but still young, a couple of million years) stars
are present in the small, circular cavity in the head of the globule.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The combined action of the light from this massive star
ionizing and compressing the rim of the cloud, and the wind from the young
stars shifting gas from the center outward, lead to very high compression in
the Elephant Trunk Nebula. This pressure has triggered the current generation
of protostars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">40x180sec Lights each in Ha, Sii and Oii filters, with Darks,
Flats and Bias. Sii is mapped to Red, Ha to Green and Oiii to Blue, with the
channels then adjusted to give the classic Hubble Palette.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09940287994099218887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454452617315925091.post-51615853812290264902018-12-12T10:06:00.000+00:002018-12-12T10:06:14.230+00:00NGC281 - Pacman Nebula<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_uMNEr7Q0bgc6Ei_sel4aIvuOZgoHKuAZpprXBYTu4NSbvew2KO3yZYMy38G8vE2xM7AlzRJcRsIKmRcYVN005t19EVeZli8jblKgSrBHLMeCJRPGPBkkRtzK7R_1YQyEslU2UX4jWvui/s1600/NGC281+-+Pacman+Nebula.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_uMNEr7Q0bgc6Ei_sel4aIvuOZgoHKuAZpprXBYTu4NSbvew2KO3yZYMy38G8vE2xM7AlzRJcRsIKmRcYVN005t19EVeZli8jblKgSrBHLMeCJRPGPBkkRtzK7R_1YQyEslU2UX4jWvui/s320/NGC281+-+Pacman+Nebula.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This is NGC 281, The Pacman Nebula in Cassiopeia. Also
catalogued as IC 11, Sh2-184, Sharpless 184, LBN 616 and LBN 123.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">NGC 281 is a bright emission nebula, and part of an H II
region, in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia; it is part of the Milky
Way's Perseus Spiral Arm. This 20×30 arcmin sized nebulosity is also associated
with open cluster IC 1590, several Bok globules, the multiple star B1, and
measures over 50 lightyears across. A recent estimate of its distance shows it
lies around 9200 lightyears from us. It is known as the Pacman Nebula for its
resemblance to the video game character.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">E. E. Barnard discovered this nebula in August 1883, and
described it as "a large faint nebula, very diffuse." The nebula
region is visible in amateur telescopes from dark sky locations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This image is comprised of 120x180sec lights, 40 each
through Ha, Sii and Oiii filters, with all of the associated Flats, Darks and
Bias, and represents around 6hrs exposure (not including the calibration
frames). It was taken over the course of 3 nights last week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The image was processed in PixInsight, with Sii mapped to
Red, Ha mapped to Green and Oiii mapped to Blue. The colour channels were then
adjusted independently to produce the classic Hubble Palette, where the red and
ochre colours represent predominantly Ha emissions (with a little Sii),
with the blues and cyans representing the Oii emissions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Pickering's Triangle is a small
part of the Veil Nebula. The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas
and dust in the constellation Cygnus.<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The source supernova was a star
20 times more massive than the Sun, which exploded around 8,000 years ago. The
remnants have since expanded to cover an area of the sky roughly 3 degrees in
diameter (about 6 times the diameter of the full Moon). The distance to the
nebula is not precisely known, but data suggests a distance of about 1,470
light-years.<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The analysis of the emissions
from the nebula indicate the presence of Sulphur (Sii), Hydrogen (Ha) and
Oxygen (Oiii). In this image, these wavelengths have been mapped to the Red,
Green and Blue channels respectively; this is commonly known as the Hubble
Palette (SHO). Almost all of the light from this nebula is emitted in the
Oxygen wavelength, giving a predominantly blue colour. The deep orange
areas are a mixture of Sulphur and Hydrogen.<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Some parts of the image appear to
be rope-like filaments. The standard explanation is that the shock waves are so
thin that the shell is visible only when viewed exactly edge-on, giving the
shell the appearance of a filament. <o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Even though the nebula has a
relatively bright integrated magnitude of 7, it is spread over so large an area
that the surface brightness is quite low, so the nebula is notorious among
astronomers for being difficult to see. However, apparently it can be seen
clearly in a telescope using an Oiii filter (a filter isolating the wavelength
of light from doubly ionized oxygen).</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This image is 16x180secs each Sii, Ha and Oiii, filters with
Darks, Flats and Bias. Processed in PixInsight and finished in Photoshop.</span></div>
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IC5146 - The Cocoon Nebula (also referred to as Caldwell 19 or Sh2-125). It is a reflection/emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus. IC5146 is the cluster of 9.5 mag stars in the nebula. which shines at magnitude +10.0. The cluster is about 4,000 light years away, and the central star that lights it was formed about 100,000 years ago. The nebula is about 15 light years in diameter. When viewing IC 5146, dark nebula Barnard 168 (B168) forms a dark lane that surrounds the cluster and projects westward forming the appearance of a trail behind the Cocoon.<br />
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A total of 38x300 sec Lights, with Darks, Flats and Bias. Processed in PixInsight and Photoshop.<br />
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Taken with an Altair Astro GP cam featuring a cast of thousands but notably Bill, Gary, Debbie, Janet and of course yours truly. Glynn observed and nobody made the tea??<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09940287994099218887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454452617315925091.post-17085395680825327552016-02-18T10:59:00.003+00:002016-02-18T10:59:55.130+00:00ORION, THE HUNTER<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A 3-panel mosaic of the constellation of Orion taken
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1000D, using the stock 18-55mm zoom lense, on a SW Star Adventurer mount. You can see the Orion Nebula in the sword, the Running Man Nebula just above it
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Way Galaxy. The open cluster NGC 2244 (Caldwell 50) within the centre of the
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A double cluster in Cygnus. The cluster stars are not very well detached from the background sky owing to the fact that they are in a very rich section of Cygnus and also embedded within the eastern end of the nebulosity associated with LBN 182.</span><br />
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Pluto looks quite small, but then it would from here on Earth, whereas those Americans used a spacecraft to get their close-ups. Final processing in Photoshop.<br />
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454452617315925091.post-41860694481865556332015-07-20T12:51:00.000+01:002016-01-19T00:05:31.185+00:00M27<br />
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These images were taken at an impromptu imaging/observing session on the WYAS observatory pad on 26th February 2015. The Jupiter image is a 1800 frame movie processed in Registax and the Moon image is a mosaic of 20 panels, each a 500 frame movie, again processed in Registax.<br />
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Both of these images were taken from my back garden in Castleford on the 28th October 2014. They are both made up of around 45 60 second exposures (ISO 1600) stacked in Deep Sky Stacker with 30 darks and 30 bias frames. Then processed in photoshop. I used a Canon 1200d SLR mounted on a Skywatcher 200PDS with a HEQ5Pro. <br />
<br />Gary Chiltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14827503713566595203noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454452617315925091.post-2530823405445014382014-08-11T12:57:00.002+01:002014-08-12T15:33:56.981+01:00The Sun in Hydrogen-Alpha<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Taken using the WYAS Tele-Vue Pronto with Coronado Solar Filters. A
4-Panel mosaic with each panel captured with a QHY5L-II Colour planetary
camera running at 30fps @ 1280x960 resolution. Captured in raw SER
mode, converted to AVI using PIPP, stacked and wavelet processed in
Registax, then assembled in Photoshop.<br />
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06/08/2014<br />
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An image of Mars at Opposition, taken from the observatory pad on 15th April 2014. Stacked and processed in Registax6, then colour balanced in PixInsight. Taken with a Celestron 5se scope and a QHY5L-II camera, with a Celestron 2x Barlow.<br />
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15/4/2014<br />
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A widefield image of Jupiter and its moons (L to R: Callisto, Io, JUPITER, Europa and Ganymede) taken from the observatory pad. Stacked and processed in Registax6, then colour balanced in PixInsight.<br />
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A closeup view of Jupiter and Io.<br />
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Both images taken with a Celestron 5se scope and a QHY5L-II camera. A Celestron 2x Barlow was used for the closeup image.<br />
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