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SH2-101, The Tulip Nebula, a stellar nursery in Cygnus
Coordinates: RA: 20h 00m 26s DEC: +35° 18' 54" (J2000)
Image:
8x8 min: 64 minutes
ISO 800
8 darks, 40 flats, 30 bias frames
Image Scale = 1.17 arcsec/pix
Field Of View = 50.7 x 76.1 arcmin
Stacked with Deepsky Stacker
Processed with Adobe Photoshop CS3
The right star of the two bright stars near the top center parallel to the image edge
is Cygnus X1, a stellar black hole.
There are over 3,000 stars in this image.
Equipment:
Camera: Hutech Modified Canon T1i
Scope: Modified 200m f5 Konus Newtonian with Baader MPCC coma corrector and Baader UV/IR cut filter
Mount: Losmandy G-11 Gemini V.1.04
Tripod: Losmandy Heavy Duty
Autoguide Scope: 80mm f5 Orion Shorty
Autoguide Camera: Orion Starshooter using PhD Guiding
Image acquired on 08/11/2012 at the LAS Baker Observatory, Curby, Indiana.
This is a tough object to image, largely because it is so diffuse. I have been trying to get it for nearly a year.
Finally got some decent exposures. I would have liked to have gotten more,
but alas the clouds rolled in on me.
'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
