psybiggs
Crab Pulsar
Not as dramatic visually, but this image blows me away. As well as the colourful version of the Crab Nebula I shared a few days ago, I also collected some data without a filter - the upshot is the stars are more visible in post processing including the star that powers the whole thing. I didn't think I could capture it with equipment I had, but checking my image against several others with better resolution - I'm pretty confident I got it. That diminutive black dot shining at around 16th magnitude is only 20-30 km across, a neutron star, smaller than the island of Montreal, and yet we can see it here on Earth, 6000 light years or about 60 quadrillion km away.
This is a calibrated stack of 60 two minute sub frames.
Astrotech AT102ED Refractor
0.8X Reducer/Flatenner
UV/IR Cut Filter Filter
ZWO ASI533MC Pro Camera
Crab Pulsar
Not as dramatic visually, but this image blows me away. As well as the colourful version of the Crab Nebula I shared a few days ago, I also collected some data without a filter - the upshot is the stars are more visible in post processing including the star that powers the whole thing. I didn't think I could capture it with equipment I had, but checking my image against several others with better resolution - I'm pretty confident I got it. That diminutive black dot shining at around 16th magnitude is only 20-30 km across, a neutron star, smaller than the island of Montreal, and yet we can see it here on Earth, 6000 light years or about 60 quadrillion km away.
This is a calibrated stack of 60 two minute sub frames.
Astrotech AT102ED Refractor
0.8X Reducer/Flatenner
UV/IR Cut Filter Filter
ZWO ASI533MC Pro Camera