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Taken at the Astronomy Society of Kansas City's dark sky site near Butler, MO. The picture was taken using an Orion Starshoot Deep Sky Color Imager II on a C11 telescope equipped with an f/3.3 reducer and CGE mount. 50 images of 90 seconds each were stacked using Maxim DL Essentials. Post processing was done in Photoshop CS2.
The Crab Nebula is the shattered remnant of a massive star that ended its life in a massive supernova explosion. Nearly a thousand years old, the supernova was noted in the constellation of Taurus by Chinese astronomers in the year 1054 AD.
This view of the supernova remnant obtained by the Spitzer Space Telescope shows the infrared view of this complex object. The blue region traces the cloud of energetic electrons trapped within the star's magnetic field, emitting so-called "synchrotron" radiation. The yellow-red features follow the well-known filamentary structures that permeate this nebula. Though they are known to contain hot gasses, their exact nature is still a mystery that astronomers are examining.
The energetic cloud of electrons are driven by a rapidly rotating neutron star, or pulsar, at its core. The nebula is about 6,500 light-years away from the Earth, and is 5 light-years across.
This false-color image presents images from Spitzer's Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) and Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS) at 3.6 (blue), 8.0 (green), 24 (red) microns.
Crab Nebula (M1)
A composite of 45xL 15xR 30xG 45xB forty five second exposures thru my Meade LX200 telescope using my Meade DSI Pro imager. The individual captures were calibrated using bias frames, dark frames and flat frames and then stacked and processed using Stark Labs' nebulosity and Adobe's Photoshop software. The telescope was guided during the exposures by an Orion 80mm Short Tube telescope with a Meade DSI imager driven by Stark Lab's PHD autoguiding software. All light frames were taken through a set of Meade LRGB CCD filters. Light frames were imaged on November 2, 2008 between 1:29 AM and 4:15 AM near Ellenville, NY. The total exposure was 101 minutes.
My first attempt with the new guidescope! I got a cheap Orion 110 mm guidescope which was a serious pain to attach to my 9.25" tube (I learned that the new 9.25" tubes are a slightly different length than mine so only Losmandy makes a dovetail plate that fits this tube - thanks to Kathy at S&S Optica for her help with this). The tube and rings cost about twice as much as the darn guidescope! Anyway, I manually guided a series of 5 shots about 4-6 minutes long, only 4 of which were usable due to some wind. Processing in Photoshop and with Noel Carboni's tools (also new to me).
The crab nebula was created in 1054 when a star underwent a supernova. The supernova was very bright as was recorded by Chinese and Arab astronomers. The central star has collaped into a rotating neutron star about 30 km in diameter that rotates 30 times a second! As with most astronomy stuff, the numbers are hard to fathom!
Almost invisible through the telescope. The Crab Nebula came out over this 8 minute exposure. Next time we go up, we will try a scope a little larger than our 80mm. Still a decent first attempt!
The Crab Nebula (M1) is a supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula in the constellation of Taurus, 6,500 light years from Earth.
The original supernova was observed and recorded by Arab, Chinese, and Japanese astronomers in 1054 AD.
At the center of the nebula lies the Crab Pulsar, a neutron star (or spinning ball of neutrons), 28–30 km across, which emits pulses of radiation from gamma rays to radio waves with a spin rate of 30.2 times per second.
Equipment & software used: Nexstar 11 GPS scope with Hyperstar lens and IR-modified Canon EOS 450D camera. 15 x 45s ISO800 images stacked with Registax6 and processed with Photoshop CS4 and NeatImage.
©Image - Eric W. Walker, Beinn View Observatory, Conon Bridge (22.09.12, 02:20h)
Heavily processed Hubble Space Telescope image of the interior of the Crab Nebula and its neutron star.
NOAO image of the Crab Nebula (created from a supernova whose light reached Earth and was recorded in the year 1054).
November 23, 2014.
8" LX90 with focal reducer, Pentax K-x
20 minutes exposure over 15 shots, ISO 1600
Processing in GIMP
PID 1714, 2022-11-01
M1 / NGC 1592 - Crab Nebula, supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula in the Taurus constellation:
05:34:32.652 +22:00:59.10
F162M Cyan
F480M Orange
RA 05h 34m 31.60s Dec +22º 00' 56.40.
La nostra candela.
Come spiegare in poche righe cos'è MAGIC?
È una specie di grosso uovo di pasqua di cui rimane però solo il culo, un culo lustro come uno specchio. Di fronte al culo a specchio un grande occhio umido, non come quello di Sauron però perché questo le palpebre ce le ha. Il grande occhio umido attraverso lo specchio guarda il cielo, e spesso guarda questa specie di spugna muffosa che è la Crab Nebula. La spugna muffosa spara in continuazione una pioggia di luce, ma luce forte, così forte che quando arriva vicino a noi sbatte contro l'atmosfera terrestre come contro un muro. E questo proiettile di luce contro il muro si sbriciola e i suoi frammenti cadono giù nell'atmosfera sbricolandosi ancor di più.
Così il grande occhio umido guarda il culo a specchio che raccoglie l'immagine di queste polverine bricioline di luce prodotte dal proiettile sparato dalla spugna muffosa nello spazio lontano.
Ecco cos'è MAGIC.
Image of the Crab Nebula in ultraviolet.
Image from Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (Astro-1 Shuttle Payload), G. Hennessy
A star's spectacular death in the constellation Taurus was observed on Earth as the supernova of 1054 A.D. Now, almost a thousand years later, a super dense object -- called a neutron star -- left behind by the explosion is seen spewing out a blizzard of high-energy particles into the expanding debris field known as the Crab Nebula. X-ray data from Chandra provide significant clues to the workings of this mighty cosmic "generator," which is producing energy at the rate of 100,000 suns.
This composite image uses data from three of NASA's Great Observatories. The Chandra X-ray image is shown in blue, the Hubble Space Telescope optical image is in red and yellow, and the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared image is in purple. The X-ray image is smaller than the others because extremely energetic electrons emitting X-rays radiate away their energy more quickly than the lower-energy electrons emitting optical and infrared light. Along with many other telescopes, Chandra has repeatedly observed the Crab Nebula over the course of the mission's lifetime. The Crab Nebula is one of the most studied objects in the sky, truly making it a cosmic icon.
Herschel has produced an intricate view of the remains of a star that died in a stellar explosion a millennium ago. It has provided further proof that the interstellar dust which lies throughout our Galaxy is created when massive stars reach the end of their lives.
The Crab Nebula lies about six and a half thousand light years away from Earth and is the remnant of a dramatic explosion, called a supernova, originally seen by Chinese Astronomers in 1054 AD. Starting out at 12-15 times more massive than the Sun, all that was left after the dramatic death of the star is a tiny, rapidly rotating neutron star and a complex network of ejected stellar material.
The Crab Nebula is well known for its intricate nature, with beautiful filamentary structures seen at visible wavelengths. Now, for the first time, thanks to Herschels exquisite resolution, we can see these filaments of dust in the far-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. After ruling out other sources, astronomers using Herschel showed that these filaments are made of cosmic dust, lying in exactly the same place that we see the densest clumps of supernova ejecta. This provides definitive evidence that the Crab Nebula is an efficient dust factory, containing enough dust to make around 30,000-40,000 planet Earths. The dust is made of a combination of carbon and silicate materials, which are crucial for the formation of planetary systems like our own Solar System.
Previous infrared images of the Crab Nebula, using the Spitzer Space Telescope, used much shorter wavelengths and so only showed the warmer dust. Spitzer found only a tiny amount of dust, simply because it missed the massive reservoir of colder dust now known to exist. Herschel, observing at longer wavelengths, is able to detect both warm and cool dust, some as cold as -260 Celsius, allowing astronomers to measure the total mass of dust for the first time.
Large amounts of dust have been seen in supernova remnants before, but the Crab Nebula is particularly exciting as it provides the the cleanest view of what is going on. Unlike many other remnants there is almost no dusty Galactic material in front of or behind the Crab Nebula, so the image is uncontaminated by material in between it and the Earth. This also allows astronomers to rule out the possibility that the dust was swept up as the shockwave expanded throughout the surrounding region.
In most supernova remnants, much of the dust is destroyed as it ploughs into the surrounding interstellar gas and dust, crushed by violent shockwaves. A final treat is that the Crab Nebula is a much kinder environment for dust grains, so the dust does not seem to be destroyed. This may be the first observed case of dust being freshly-cooked in a supernova and surviving its outward journey carried along by the shock wave. We now have definitive evidence that supernovae created the raw materials for the first solid particles, the building blocks of rocky planets and life itself, in a blink of an eye.
The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant, all that remains of a tremendous stellar explosion. Observers in China and Japan recorded the supernova nearly 1,000 years ago, in 1054.
Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University)
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A star's spectacular death in the constellation Taurus was observed on Earth as the supernova of 1054 A.D. Now, almost a thousand years later, a super dense object -- called a neutron star -- left behind by the explosion is seen spewing out a blizzard of high-energy particles into the expanding debris field known as the Crab Nebula. X-ray data from Chandra provide significant clues to the workings of this mighty cosmic "generator," which is producing energy at the rate of 100,000 suns.
This composite image uses data from three of NASA's Great Observatories. The Chandra X-ray image is shown in blue, the Hubble Space Telescope optical image is in red and yellow, and the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared image is in purple. The X-ray image is smaller than the others because extremely energetic electrons emitting X-rays radiate away their energy more quickly than the lower-energy electrons emitting optical and infrared light. Along with many other telescopes, Chandra has repeatedly observed the Crab Nebula over the course of the mission's lifetime. The Crab Nebula is one of the most studied objects in the sky, truly making it a cosmic icon.
This Hubble image gives the most detailed view of the entire Crab Nebula ever. The Crab is among the most interesting and well studied objects in astronomy. This image is the largest image ever taken with Hubble's WFPC2 camera. It was assembled from 24 individual exposures taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and is the highest resolution image of the entire Crab Nebula ever made.
After M33 got into the trees from my yard I had a couple of hours before dawn so I shot an hour each of OIII & Ha on the Crab nebula. Definitely needs more and I probably should've switched to the longer focal length scope, but the interactions between the hydrogen and oxygen are starting to show nicely.
Scope: Orion EON80ED
Camera: Atik 314L+
Filters: Astronomik Ha, OIII
Exposure: 3x1200s each
mapping: Ha-OIII-OIII
I'll slowly add to this over the season and shoot it on the long FL scope too
Believe it or not, it's actually there, the smudge just below the centre. Not that impressive for a first attempt!
DSLR mounted piggyback, 300mm lens
ISO 1600
2 x 30s shots at f/8
The Crab Nebula (M1 or NGC 1952) is a supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula in the constellation of Taurus. It lies in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way galaxy, at a distance of approximately 6,500 light years away from Earth. The supernova was first recorded recorded by Chinese astronomers in 1054, The nebula was the first astronomical object identified with a historical supernova explosion. At the center of the nebula lies the Crab Pulsar, a neutron star 28–30 kilometres across with a spin rate of 30.2 times per second, which emits pulses of radiation from gamma rays to radio waves.
This image is a reprocessing of an image taken on December 20th 2014. The original subs have been lost so the output file from Deep Sky Stacker was put through Nebulosity and Photoshop to improve what was a fairly messy image.
Der Crabnebel (oder auch Krebsnebel) ist ein Supernova-Überrest, also der Rest eines explodierten Sterns mit einem verbliebenen Neutronenstern im Zentrum. Der Nebel heisst so, weil die hellsten Bereiche so ähnlich aussehen wie die Scheren einer Krabbe (engl. Crab). Die Supernova-Explosion ereignete sich im Jahre 1054.
Der Nebel trägt die fachliche Bezeichnung Messier 1 (M1), bzw NGC 1952, und befindet sich im Sternbild Stier.
Aufgenommen am 12.02.2021 mit der Canon EOS 7D Mark II und dem Meade LX50 10-Zoll Spiegelteleskop auf einer Skywatcher EQ6-R-Pro Montierung. Die Brennweite betrug 1800mm bei F6,3. Belichtung mit 32 Einzelbildern zu je 45 Sekunden (= 24 Minuten Gesamtbelichtungszeit) bei ISO 3200.
This is what remains from a supernova that was visible on Earth in 1054 C.E. 19 minute total exposure at f/6.3 with a Celestron Edge HD 9.25" and ATIK 314L+ color CCD camera. Guided with PHD. Processing done with Deep Sky Stacker, FITS Liberator and Photoshop Elements.
Heavily processed Hubble Space Telescope image of the interior of the Crab Nebula and its neutron star.
X-ray image of the Crab Nebula taken by the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Image website: chandra.harvard.edu/photo/1999/0052/
Image credit: NASA/CXC/SAO
The Crab Nebula is an iconic object in space that has been studied intensely by both telescopes on the ground and those in space. This image of the Crab combines data from three of NASA's Great Observatories. X-rays from Chandra (blue) have been combined with optical images from Hubble (red and yellow) as well as infrared data from Spitzer (purple). Together, these three telescopes provide a striking view of this famous cosmic source.
M1, the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant. A massive star exploded as a supernova, witnessed by Chinese astronomers in 1054 A.D. -- it was visible in the daylight for 23 days and at night for almost two years! This image is a compilation of many separate images through blue, green, red, and clear filters, amounting to a total exposure of about one-half hour.
Scope, camera and mount supplied by 3RF (see www.3rf.org).
A star's spectacular death in the constellation Taurus was observed on Earth as the supernova of 1054 A.D. Now, almost a thousand years later, a super dense object -- called a neutron star -- left behind by the explosion is seen spewing out a blizzard of high-energy particles into the expanding debris field known as the Crab Nebula. X-ray data from Chandra provide significant clues to the workings of this mighty cosmic "generator," which is producing energy at the rate of 100,000 suns..
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This composite image uses data from three of NASA's Great Observatories. The Chandra X-ray image is shown in blue, the Hubble Space Telescope optical image is in red and yellow, and the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared image is in purple. The X-ray image is smaller than the others because extremely energetic electrons emitting X-rays radiate away their energy more quickly than the lower-energy electrons emitting optical and infrared light. Along with many other telescopes, Chandra has repeatedly observed the Crab Nebula over the course of the mission's lifetime. The Crab Nebula is one of the most studied objects in the sky, truly making it a cosmic icon.
Telescope: Meade 10" LX200GPS with f/6.3 Focal Reducer
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3
Location: Lawrence Lake, AB, Canada
Image composed of 7 30sec exposures at ISO-3200.
This is the remains of a star that was visible as a supernova in 1054 C.E. When a star much more massive than our sun dies, it can be more than a billion times more luminous than our sun. If it is in our galaxy, it may be visible during the daytime. 21 minute total exposure; ATIK 314L+ color CCD camera on 9.25" Edge HD with f/6.3 focal reducer; hand guided.