RE: My Astro Photo Of The Day
December 9, 2010 at 9:53 am
(This post was last modified: December 9, 2010 at 9:53 am by orogenicman.)
I finally made it out to the observatory last night, and boy am I tired! Here is the first result:
![[Image: Rosette_flattened-1.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i132.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fq9%2Fjryates%2FRosette_flattened-1.jpg)
From SEDS:
The Rosetta Nebula is a vast cloud of dust and gas, extending over an area of more than 1 degree across, or about 5 times the area covered by the full moon. Its parts have been assigned different NGC numbers: 2237, 2238, 2239, and 2246. Within the nebula, open star cluster NGC 2244 is situated, consisted of the young stars which recently formed from the nebula's material, and the brightest of which make the nebula shine by exciting its atoms to emit radiation. Star formation is still in progress in this vast cloud of interstellar matter; a recent finding of a very young star with a Herbig-Haro type jet by astronomers at the NOAO has been announced in Press Release NOAO 04-03 on January 22, 2004.
NOTE: This is my first attempt at a long exposure of this object. It was late, and I rushed it a bit, resulting in the stars being slightly out of focus (a recurring theme lately), and an off-center target. Considering the fact that the object is so huge that it doesn't fit in my field of view, I'll settle for what I got, though I'm definitely going to have to redo this one.
Image:
11x5 minutes for a total of 55 minutes at ISO 1600
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, Dark Subtracted
Processed in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended
Taken on December 8, 2010 at the Louisville Astronomical Society Observatory, in Curby, Indiana
Equipment:
200 mm f5 Konus Newtonian with Baader coma corrector and UV/IR cut filter
Losmandy G11 Gemini GOTO mount on Heavy Duty Tripod
Orion Shorty Autoguide Scope with Starshooter autoguider
More to come (and I might rework this one)
NGC 2237 (The Rosette Nebula), in Monoceros
From SEDS:
The Rosetta Nebula is a vast cloud of dust and gas, extending over an area of more than 1 degree across, or about 5 times the area covered by the full moon. Its parts have been assigned different NGC numbers: 2237, 2238, 2239, and 2246. Within the nebula, open star cluster NGC 2244 is situated, consisted of the young stars which recently formed from the nebula's material, and the brightest of which make the nebula shine by exciting its atoms to emit radiation. Star formation is still in progress in this vast cloud of interstellar matter; a recent finding of a very young star with a Herbig-Haro type jet by astronomers at the NOAO has been announced in Press Release NOAO 04-03 on January 22, 2004.
NOTE: This is my first attempt at a long exposure of this object. It was late, and I rushed it a bit, resulting in the stars being slightly out of focus (a recurring theme lately), and an off-center target. Considering the fact that the object is so huge that it doesn't fit in my field of view, I'll settle for what I got, though I'm definitely going to have to redo this one.
Image:
11x5 minutes for a total of 55 minutes at ISO 1600
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, Dark Subtracted
Processed in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended
Taken on December 8, 2010 at the Louisville Astronomical Society Observatory, in Curby, Indiana
Equipment:
200 mm f5 Konus Newtonian with Baader coma corrector and UV/IR cut filter
Losmandy G11 Gemini GOTO mount on Heavy Duty Tripod
Orion Shorty Autoguide Scope with Starshooter autoguider
More to come (and I might rework this one)
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
