Crab Nebula
The Crab Nebula is a supernova explosion remnant in the constellation Taurus. It corresponds to a bright supernova recorded by Chinese astronomers in 1054.
Approximately 6500 light-years from Earth, it is not visible to the naked eye but can be made out using binoculars under favourable conditions. The nebula lies in our own Milky Way galaxy, with a diameter of 11 light-years expanding at 1,500 km/sec. At the center of the nebula lies the Crab Pulsar, a neutron star 30 km across with a spin rate of 30.2 times per second.
Photo taken 11/14/2015 at 2:00a EDT stacking six 60-sec exposures obtained @ f/2 (approx 400x) with Orion Starshoot G3 camera, Hyperstar 3 lens, 8" Celestron SCT telescope.
More information and links to Hubble images are on Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_Nebula
Crab Nebula
The Crab Nebula is a supernova explosion remnant in the constellation Taurus. It corresponds to a bright supernova recorded by Chinese astronomers in 1054.
Approximately 6500 light-years from Earth, it is not visible to the naked eye but can be made out using binoculars under favourable conditions. The nebula lies in our own Milky Way galaxy, with a diameter of 11 light-years expanding at 1,500 km/sec. At the center of the nebula lies the Crab Pulsar, a neutron star 30 km across with a spin rate of 30.2 times per second.
Photo taken 11/14/2015 at 2:00a EDT stacking six 60-sec exposures obtained @ f/2 (approx 400x) with Orion Starshoot G3 camera, Hyperstar 3 lens, 8" Celestron SCT telescope.
More information and links to Hubble images are on Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_Nebula