This is an image I took last December 8, but never was satisfied with the results. I've reprocessed it, which I think gave much better results. Unfortunately, the image is slightly out of focus (the bright stars should not have double diffraction spikes), and the object isn't centered in the image. I am hoping to get a much better result this year, as this is on my re-do list.
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The Rosette Nebula is a large, diffuse emission nebula located 3000 light-years away (so large, in fact, that I can't get it all in view at the focal plane of my telescope). The great abundance of hydrogen gas gives NGC 2237 its red color in most photographs. The wind from the open cluster of stars known as NGC 2244 has cleared a hole in the nebula's center.
NGC 2237 - The Rosette Nebula, in the direction of the constellation of Monoceros
The Rosette Nebula is a large, diffuse emission nebula located 3000 light-years away (so large, in fact, that I can't get it all in view at the focal plane of my telescope). The great abundance of hydrogen gas gives NGC 2237 its red color in most photographs. The wind from the open cluster of stars known as NGC 2244 has cleared a hole in the nebula's center.
'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
