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This planetary nebula has a very unusual shape.
The central star is moving, and this causes the ejected material to pile up in one direction. This part is brighter.
SHO RGB Composite
The planetary nebula is interacting with the interstellar medium. Long exposures show faint details of the planetary nebula.
The rest of the circle at the lower left as well as extra material below this are also barely visible.
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Imaged from Deep Sky West - Rowe New Mexico, using RCOS 14.5” Ritchey–Chrétien telescope f/9. 3340 mm focal length.
S 10 hours, O 7.5 hours, H 12.5 hours exposure. RGB 5 hours total.
35 hours total exposure.
Transparency and Seeing very good to excellent.
November-December 2017 Processed in Pixinsight, and Lightroom, Photoshop
In explore
I uploaded these 3 for one to go through to post at HBW tomorrow. A sort of Bokeh idol if you like. The one with the most votes gets posted
Ok this is the winner. Thanks everyone. HBW
had a go at putting an orb in a spin, got a good orb a good spin but may need to lower the angle of the camera as it was about 20 feet up looking down on it, and you lose the top of the orb.
Same technique as in previous Venus post.
This time I managed 12 x 1 minute IR (685nm) video runs and 8 x 2 minute UV (350nm) video runs. All stacked down into 1 red and 1 blue image. A blend of those 2 is mapped to green then an RGB combination performed to give a false colour image.
Venus looks just a little bigger this time as it gets closer in its orbit to us.
Im using FireCapture 2.6 acquisition/control software and aiming to keep histogram levels near 75% of the X-axis on the graph for all exposures.
If weather keeps up might try a deeper IR filter @ 742nm and experiment with a combination W47 violet + IR cut filter instead of UV as well.
Astrometry:
Illuminated fraction = 0.366
Diameter = 31.3 arcsec
Light travel time = 4.4 minutes
Elongation from Sun = 43.7 East
Elevation = 21 degrees
The Police Striker is one of the most common ships in the Confederacy Galactic Police Force. It mostly patrols the outskirts of major Cities and Industrial areas. Always ready to strike at suspicious activity. Antigrav engines keeps it in the air while the quad thrusters gives it it's deadly speed. The wings are mainly for stabilization but can also be used for tight twists and turns. The Striker can fly in zero g but performs best in an atmosphere.
(August 5, 1999) When 17th-century astronomers first turned their telescopes to Jupiter, they noted a conspicuous reddish spot on the giant planet. This Great Red Spot is still present in Jupiter's atmosphere, more than 300 years later. It is now known that it is a vast storm, spinning like a cyclone. Unlike a low-pressure hurricane in the Caribbean Sea, however, the Red Spot rotates in a counterclockwise direction in the southern hemisphere, showing that it is a high-pressure system. Winds inside this Jovian storm reach speeds of about 270 mph. The Red Spot is the largest known storm in the Solar System. With a diameter of 15,400 miles, it is almost twice the size of the entire Earth and one-sixth the diameter of Jupiter itself. The long lifetime of the Red Spot may be due to the fact that Jupiter is mainly a gaseous planet. It possibly has liquid layers, but lacks a solid surface, which would dissipate the storm's energy, much as happens when a hurricane makes landfall on the Earth. However, the Red Spot does change its shape, size, and color. Such changes are demonstrated in high-resolution Wide Field and Planetary Cameras 1 & 2 images of Jupiter obtained by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, and presented here by the Hubble Heritage Project team. The Hubble images were originally collected by Amy Simon (Cornell U.), Reta Beebe (NMSU), Heidi Hammel (Space Science Institute, MIT), and their collaborators, and have been prepared for presentation by the Hubble Heritage Team.
Credit: The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA/NASA) and Amy Simon (Cornell U.)
Image Number: PR99-29A1
Date: June 1999
The Planetary Mining Rover is a mass produced rover used extensively throughout the galaxy. The equipped dual drilling arms are capable of breaking through some of the toughest materials known to man. A cargo compartment in the rear of the rover enables the P.M.R. to transport materials back to base.
Can't see Mercury, but we have Venus, Moon, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn visible in the dawn sky today.
Photo of oil droplets from the oil & water macro abstract photography assignment captured via Minolta MD Macro Rokkor-X 100mm F/4 lens. Inside the creative halls of the 494 ∞ Labs. Late July 2021.
Exposure Time: 1/15 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-200 * Aperture: F/8 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 3500 K * Plug-In: Sharp Pop by Preset Kingdom * Adaptor: 1:1 Extension Tube
This is the large 9th magnitude blue-green planetary nebula NGC 1360 in Fornax the Furnace. It is also known as the Robin's Egg Nebula.
NGC 1360 is odd in that it is a more uniform disk, not a ring or bi-polar object as are many planetaries. The 11th magnitude central star is visible.
The barred spiral galaxy NGC 1398 is at lower left.
Technical:
This is a stack of 10 x 6 minute exposures with the Askar APO120 refractor at f/7 and with the Canon Ra at ISO 1600. Taken from the Quailway Cottage in southeast Arizona in the pre-dawn hours of October 9, 2024.
With the public release of some of the initial JWST images it is possible to download and process the raw data yourself.
Images were made at six infrared wavelengths and so the choice of mapping these images into an RGB colour space is left up to the end user.
In this I've tried to bring out the detail in the regions of this planetary nebula, formed as a star throws off its outer layers.
Raw data credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STSCI processing: Anthony Holloway
Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Altair Tri-|Band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C. 45 x 5 minute exposures (3 hour 45 minutes ) at Gain 120, Offset 30, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in Pixinsight Topaz denoise and Photoshop.
Collected between 0:03 to 1:52 on the 24th of March, 2022.
Passing thin clouds.
Planetary meeting last night
Dijon
ISO-100
f/5.0
Focale : 49mm
Tps expo : 1 sec
Luminosité : - 1.45
Lat : 47;20;55
Long : 5;2;15
Alt : 273.8
20h53, Dijon Nord
The Soap Bubble Nebula, or PN G75.5+1.7, is a planetary nebula in the constellation Cygnus, near the Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888).
Date: 30 Jan 2017
Mount: AP Mach 1
Imaging scope: AT8RC CCDT67 1080mm
Imaging camera: Trius SX-694
Lights: Ha 25 x 600 sec
OIII 23 x 600 sec
Calibration: none
Guide scope: OAG Lodestar
Other details: Captured with SGP, guided with PHD2, stacked in DSS processed in Photoshop
The team overseeing ESA’s Hera asteroid mission for planetary defence pose with the spacecraft behind them in its ESTEC Test Centre cleanroom in the Netherlands.
They are joined in this photo by representatives from Tyvak International in Italy and GomSpace in Luxembourg – makers of the Milani and Juventas CubeSats respectively, which will join Hera on its journey into deep space – as well as Cheryl Reed of the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University in the US – seen in the centre – who served as programme manager of NASA’s predecessor planetary defence mission DART (Double Asteroid Redirect Test).
Also represented is ISISpace in the Netherlands, manufacturer of the Deep Space Deployers that will store the miniature CubeSats during their journey to Didymos and deploy them upon arrival.
Hera and DART were conceived together and implemented as the international Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment (AIDA) international collaboration. Both missions are supported by a common community of planetary scientists.
On 26 September 2022 the van-sized DART spacecraft impacted the Dimorphos asteroid at around 6.1 km/s. This first test of the ‘kinetic impact’ method of planetary defence succeeded in modifying the orbit of the target asteroid around the larger Didymos body.
This October Hera will commence a two-year odyssey to the Didymos binary asteroid system to perform a close-up asteroid survey, gathering crucial missing information to turn DART’s grand-scale experiment into a well-understood and potentially repeatable planetary defence technique.
Credits: ESA
I think I should stop listening to MouseWorld Radio and Magical Mouse Radio. After hearing the Tomorrowland background music on one of those two stations yesterday, all I can think of is Tomorrowland. These withdrawals are bad, I think partially because we spent so little time in Tomorrowland at night on our December trip. In August, we ended the evening in Tomorrowland approximately six nights. In December, we ended in Tomorrowland on only one night. Much more emphasis was placed on the Christmas decorations then, so the other lands didn’t get nearly as much attention as they normally would have received. Now, as a result, I don’t know how I’m going to make it to our next Walt Disney World trip, which is many months away, to see my favorite land once again.
Even though we didn’t spend much time there in December, during one of the Christmas parties, while Sarah was buying some swag, I captured this shot of Mickey’s Star Traders. It captures a lot of my favorite things about Star Traders, including the planets orbiting around the Mickey head (which I unfortunately could not orient properly in this shot because do so would cause the mural to display poorly–the shots I have of the Mickey head oriented toward the camera don’t look as good because of the lack of mural) and the awesome mural. It might be a fairly plain shot, but for this huge Tomorrowland geek, it’s pretty cool!
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Check out the February 4, 2011 update to our December WDW trip report by clicking here! (navigate to last page).
Planetary nebula NGC 1514 in visible light from the PanSTARRS survey. Custom stacked and processed to mitigate most of the artifacts that are present in the automatically generated all sky mosaic.
I made this image to compare the incredible difference between the visible light view and the infrared view recently acquired by JWST.
Red: PanSTARRS i
Green: PanSTARRS r
Blue: PanSTARRS g
North is about 7.42° counter-clockwise from up.
M27, the Dumbbell Nebula is a planetary nubula in Vulpecula. Its about 1360 ly away and is easily visible in binoculars.
42 mins captured with the H183 on an RC8. Stacked in DSS, postprocessed in Pixinsight.
“Artist Concept - Planetary payload.”
This is a cropped version of a depiction I’ve come across quite often. Of course, NOT while I look for it, with the foolish/unfounded expectation that if/when I come across it, it’ll have a more substantive caption/description.
So, my usual drivel follows: Something I’ve never noticed before; this is one of the few artist’s concepts, due to the perspective, that provides an excellent view of this near final shuttle design in which the OMS Pod “pods”/fairings extend into the OPEN payload bay doors. Along with the retractable forward reaction control system engines of the time & ‘B-9 environmental robot’ RMS ‘end effector’.
The satellite itself has also always piqued my interest. There’s at least one other image in this family/series that shows the rolled/folded up solar arrays beginning to deploy. With that, note that the primary payload is rather detailed, more than just a generic ‘planetary probe’ configuration. Finally, that’s an Agena tug, or Agena something or another, right?
Possibly by Henry Lozano? Ted Brown? Manuel Alvarez?
An unusually heavy & thick “THIS PAPER MANUFACTURED BY KODAK” watermarked photo paper. Good thing, as this photo has not been taken care of.
Not related, other than being an Agena...and fascinating:
www.thespacereview.com/article/4174/1
Credit: "The Space Review" website