Took a few images today of a galaxy and a couple planetary nebulas. The first one I'll feature is M64 in Coma Berenices. This 9th magnitude galaxy is about 25 million light years away. The Black Eye comes from a patch of dark dust which obscures the bright part of the galaxy behind it.
The next object is a fun one to image, and its been photographed to death. Messier 27, or the Dumbbell Nebula. It looks like an apple core to me... The remnants of a dead star is about 1350 light years away in the constellation Vulpecula. The central star is a white dwarf, and is the largest white dwarf known.
The 3rd object, I've imaged before, M57, the Ring Nebula in Lyra. This is an easy object because it is quite bright. Although bright, it is small. Although it can be seen in binoculars, they wont provide enough magnification to be able to tell what it is. A telescope 6 inches in diameter, and about 100 power will show its ring like appearance.
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Job 9:9
Job 9:9-10
9 He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion,
the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.
10 He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed,
miracles that cannot be counted.
NIV
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013
A Couple Forgotten Images
I forgot, but I also was able to capture a couple objects that I had forgotten about. The first image is a deep M57, the Ring Nebula in Lyra. I imaged this using 15 minute frames, and was able to capture the outer halo.
This image was done in narrowband, Hα and OIII, with the Hα mapped to red and OIII mapped to blue and green. The Hα was stretched slightly to help bring out the outer halo, but it was obvious in the raw unstretched frames. I took this image on 9/18/2013.
The other object I would like to share was taken on 10/27/13. This object, NGC206 is a star forming region and cluster located within the Andromeda Galaxy. Taken with the CCD with no filtering, the area of interest is just left of center. The galaxy core is off the screen towards the bottom right. Some stars are resolved in the cluster. Not bad for resolving stars 2.5 million light years away....
This was imaged with no filters, so it is black and white. I didnt care as far as how pretty the picture was, I was more curious to see if I could image this object with any detail.
This image was done in narrowband, Hα and OIII, with the Hα mapped to red and OIII mapped to blue and green. The Hα was stretched slightly to help bring out the outer halo, but it was obvious in the raw unstretched frames. I took this image on 9/18/2013.
The other object I would like to share was taken on 10/27/13. This object, NGC206 is a star forming region and cluster located within the Andromeda Galaxy. Taken with the CCD with no filtering, the area of interest is just left of center. The galaxy core is off the screen towards the bottom right. Some stars are resolved in the cluster. Not bad for resolving stars 2.5 million light years away....
This was imaged with no filters, so it is black and white. I didnt care as far as how pretty the picture was, I was more curious to see if I could image this object with any detail.
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