The Running Man Cometh!
November 12, 2010 at 12:39 pm
(This post was last modified: November 12, 2010 at 12:40 pm by orogenicman.)
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NGC 1977, The Running Man Nebula
NGC 1977 is a large blue reflection nebula in Orion located just above the Great Nebula, M-42. The running man shape appears easily in CCD images, but is much more difficult to detect visually. In fact nebulosity around these stars is not readily visible in 6"-8" scopes. This image was cropped so that it would be a bit larger than the original, though it also includes the open cluster NGC 1981 for added beauty. I really like this object, and plan to do more extensive work on it in the future.
Image
5x2 minutes for a total of 10 minutes at ISO 800
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, Dark Subtracted
Processed in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended
Taken on November 8, 2010 at the Louisville Astronomical Society Observatory, in Curby, Indiana
Equipment:
Hutech Canon T1i DSLR
200 mm f5 Konus Newtonian with a Baader coma corrector and a UV/IR cut filter
Losmandy G11 Gemini GOTO mount on Heavy Duty Tripod
Orion Shorty Autoguide Scope with Starshooter autoguider
Comments: This is my first attempt to get this object by itself (without imaging M 42 at the same time).
Enjoy,
OGM
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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
