Messier 27
October 22, 2010 at 3:38 am
(This post was last modified: October 22, 2010 at 3:44 am by orogenicman.)
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Messier 27, The Dumbbell Nebula, in the constellation Vulpecula
Image:
14x1.5 minutes for a total exposure of 21 minutes at ISO 800
Stacked and dark subtracted in Deepsky Stacker, processed in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended
Taken at Taylorsville Lake, Kentucky, on July 7, 2010
(I consider this one of my best efforts so far this year)
Equipment:
Hutech modified Canon T1i DSLR
200 mm f5 modified Konus Newtonian with Baader coma corrector
Losmandy G-11 with Gemini Go To with Losmandy heavy duty tripod
Orion Starshooter Autoguider on Orion 80 mm Short tube
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbbell_Nebula
The Dumbbell Nebula (also known as Messier 27, M 27, or NGC 6853) is a planetary nebula (PN) in the constellation Vulpecula, at a distance of about 1,360 light years.
This object was the first planetary nebula to be discovered; by Charles Messier in 1764. At its brightness of visual magnitude 7.5 and its diameter of about 8 arcminutes, it is easily visible in binoculars, and a popular observing target in amateur telescopes.
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-- 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
