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IC418 - The Spirograph Revisited
The famous nebula revisited from previous images taken at the Stocker AstroScience Center in Miami Florida on 12/10/2014. The images are 8 second exposures through Johnson R,V and I filters and color combined in Mira to get a psuedo-color image. Although we lack the resolution, even on the best nights, of the Hubble Space telescope, we can still pick up the nebulosity around the central star. This object is a planetary nebula located in the constellation Lepus and is the result of a red giant star which exploded a few million years ago. It is over 3600 light years from Earth and appears to us as a faint nebula only a few arc minutes across in the optical. The famous Space telescope images revealed not only the intricate patterns of nebulosity from which it gained its name "Spirograph Nebula", but also the expansion speed of the gases. The central star was probably very similar to our Sun. These images were taken, re-reduced and color combined by Dr. Webb.
IC418 - The Spirograph Revisited
The famous nebula revisited from previous images taken at the Stocker AstroScience Center in Miami Florida on 12/10/2014. The images are 8 second exposures through Johnson R,V and I filters and color combined in Mira to get a psuedo-color image. Although we lack the resolution, even on the best nights, of the Hubble Space telescope, we can still pick up the nebulosity around the central star. This object is a planetary nebula located in the constellation Lepus and is the result of a red giant star which exploded a few million years ago. It is over 3600 light years from Earth and appears to us as a faint nebula only a few arc minutes across in the optical. The famous Space telescope images revealed not only the intricate patterns of nebulosity from which it gained its name "Spirograph Nebula", but also the expansion speed of the gases. The central star was probably very similar to our Sun. These images were taken, re-reduced and color combined by Dr. Webb.