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Back in 2020 in our lovely flat close to the city center. Feeling trapped in between corona lockdowns.
The "Gaia" exhibition, a 23ft diameter planet earth constructed from NASA images by British artist Luke Jerram and currently on display at Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral
Occasionally you will have to visit a more crowded outpost, and your Planetary Surveyor is simply a bit too large to squeeze into dense populated areas.
Luckily, that's why it also comes with an auxiliary rover, complete with small, deployable terrain scanners!
Alinhamento Planetário em conjunção com a lua. Vénus, lua, Marte, Júpiter e Saturno
Pentax k-1 Mark II + Irix 21mm f1:1.4
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.
Press “L” to see large.
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
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image of planetary nebula NGC 1514 to date thanks to its unique mid-infrared observations. Webb’s image brings out the nebula’s nuances, particularly its “fuzzy” dusty rings. Also look for holes in the central pink region where material has broken through.Two central stars, which appear as one in Webb’s image, formed this scene over thousands of years — and will keep at it for thousands more.
Gas and dust ejected by a dying star at the heart of NGC 1514 came into complete focus thanks to mid-infrared data from the James Webb Space Telescope. Its rings, which are only detected in infrared light, now look like fuzzy clumps arranged in tangled patterns, and a network of clearer holes close to the central stars shows where faster material punched through.
The rings around NGC 1514 were discovered in 2010, but now Webb is allowing scientists to comprehensively examine the turbulent nature of this nebula.
This scene has been forming for at least 4,000 years — and will continue to change over many more millennia. At the center are two stars that appear as one in Webb’s observation, and are set off with brilliant diffraction spikes. The stars follow a tight, elongated nine-year orbit and are draped in an arc of dust represented in orange.
One of these stars, which used to be several times more massive than our Sun, took the lead role in producing this scene. Once the star’s outer layers were exhausted, only its hot, compact core remained. As a white dwarf star, its winds both sped up and weakened, which might have swept up material into thin shells.
Its hourglass shape
Webb’s observations show the nebula is at a 60-degree angle, which makes it look like a can is being poured, but it’s far more likely that NGC 1514 takes the shape of an hourglass with the ends lopped off. Look for hints of its pinched waist near top left and bottom right, where the dust is orange and drifts into shallow V-shapes. When this star was at its peak of losing material, the companion could have gotten very close, resulting in these unusual shapes. Instead of producing a sphere, this interaction might have instead formed rings.
Though the outline of NGC 1514 is clearest, the hourglass also has “sides” that are part of its three-dimensional shape. Look for the dim, semi-transparent orange clouds between its rings that give the nebula body.
A network of dappled structures
The nebula’s two rings are unevenly illuminated in Webb’s observations, appearing more diffuse at bottom left and top right. They also look fuzzy, or textured. Scientists believe the rings are primarily made up of very small dust grains, which, when hit by ultraviolet light from the white dwarf star, heat up enough to be detected by Webb.
In addition to dust, the telescope also revealed oxygen in its clumpy pink center, particularly at the edges of the bubbles or holes.
NGC 1514 is also notable for what is absent. Carbon and more complex versions of it, smoke-like material known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, are common in planetary nebulae (expanding shells of glowing gas expelled by stars late in their lives). Neither were detected in NGC 1514. More complex molecules might not have had time to form due to the orbit of the two central stars, which mixed up the ejected material. A simpler composition also means that the light from both stars reaches much farther, which is why we see the faint, cloud-like rings.
What about the bright blue star to the lower left with slightly smaller diffraction spikes than the central stars? It’s not part of this scene. In fact, this star lies closer to us.
This planetary nebula has been studied by astronomers since the late 1700s. Astronomer William Herschel noted in 1790 that NGC 1514 was the first deep sky object to appear genuinely cloudy — he could not resolve what he saw into individual stars within a cluster, like other objects he cataloged. With Webb, our view is considerably clearer.
NGC 1514 lies in the Taurus constellation approximately 1,500 light-years from Earth.
More information
Webb is the largest, most powerful telescope ever launched into space. Under an international collaboration agreement, ESA provided the telescope’s launch service, using the Ariane 5 launch vehicle. Working with partners, ESA was responsible for the development and qualification of Ariane 5 adaptations for the Webb mission and for the procurement of the launch service by Arianespace. ESA also provided the workhorse spectrograph NIRSpec and 50% of the mid-infrared instrument MIRI, which was designed and built by a consortium of nationally funded European Institutes (The MIRI European Consortium) in partnership with JPL and the University of Arizona.
Webb is an international partnership between NASA, ESA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).
[Image description: What looks like a single large, bright star (but is two) shines with bright purple diffraction spikes at the center of a large, diffuse cylinder of gas and dust that is tipped to the right. At the center is a bright pink clumpy cloud that takes up about 25% of the view. There are two large rings seen at a roughly 60-degree angle that appear joined at top left and bottom right. The edges are denser, and form shallow V-shapes that go inward. The rings appear orange at top left and bottom right, and are blue at bottom and center right. There is diffuse orange material around the body. The black background of space is speckled with tiny stars and galaxies mostly in blues and yellows. Areas Webb did not observe are along the top edges, a thin vertical near the nebula at top left, and at the bottom left and right corners.]
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Michael Ressler (NASA-JPL), Dave Jones (IAC); CC BY 4.0
This painting is based on the mural i did in India in January 2017.
It was about the motion of celestial bodies in the Universe.
This painting is about Earth motion.
After one year of painting black lines on a walls i bring this experience to the studio.
Ink+arylic on Linen.
100x60 cm.
2017.
waone.net
These gigantic, tadpole-shaped objects are probably the result of a dying star's last gasps. Dubbed "cometary knots" because their glowing heads and gossamer tails resemble comets, the gaseous objects probably were formed during a star's final stages of life.
Hubble astronomer C. Robert O'Dell and graduate student Kerry P. Handron of Rice University in Houston, Texas discovered thousands of these knots with the Hubble Space Telescope while exploring the Helix nebula, the closest planetary nebula to Earth at 450 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius. Although ground-based telescopes have revealed such objects, astronomers have never seen so many of them. The most visible knots all lie along the inner edge of the doomed star's ring, trillions of miles away from the star's nucleus. Although these gaseous knots appear small, they're actually huge. Each gaseous head is at least twice the size of our solar system; each tail stretches for 100 billion miles, about 1,000 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun. Astronomers theorize that the doomed star spews hot, lower-density gas from its surface, which collides with cooler, higher-density gas that had been ejected 10,000 years before. The crash fragments the smooth cloud surrounding the star into smaller, denser finger-like droplets, like dripping paint. This image was taken in August, 1994 with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. The red light depicts nitrogen emission ([NII] 6584A); green, hydrogen (H-alpha, 6563A); and blue, oxygen (5007A).
Credit: Robert O'Dell, Kerry P. Handron (Rice University) and NASA/ESA
Image Number: PR96-13B
Date: August 1, 1994
(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 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.
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
Due to the small size of this object, the image has been heavily cropped.
9 x 4-minute manually off-axis guided exposures at ISO 1600, f/4. Modified EOS 600D & Revelation 12" Newtonian reflector telescope.
Registered and stacked using Deep Sky Stacker; curves adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; noise reduction in Cyberlink PhotoDirector.
IC 443 region
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
Mu Geminorum (left), Eta Geminorum (right) and the SNR IC 443.
The most interesting objects contained in the common FoV are indicated.
As a curiosity, the small planetary nebula HoCr 1 was discovered in 2021 and has always been there, without others noticing it...
J2000.0 RA 06h 17m 13s Dec +22° 31′ 05′′
IC 443 (Sh2-248) is a galactic supernova remnant (SNR) in Gemini. It is located near Eta Geminorum at 5,000 light years.
IC443 is the remains of a supernova that occurred about 10,000 years ago. The same supernova event likely created the neutron star CXOU J061705.3+222127, the collapsed remnant of the stellar core.
The supernova remnant cataloged as IC 443 and Sharpless 2–248 is more commonly known as the Jellyfish Nebula. It lies in the constellation Gemini the Twins. IC443 isn’t small. It has a diameter of 50', which means it covers 2.8 times as much area as the Full Moon. Because it is so large and diffuse, it’s a much better target for imagers than for visual observers.
Although astronomers know that this object was once a massive star that exploded as a supernova, it’s been tough to pin down when that happened.
Estimates range between 3,000 and 30,000 years ago. It lies some 5,000 lightyears from Earth, which would make its actual diameter approximately 70 light-years.
In 2015, data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory revealed what may be the remnant of the supernova that created IC 443: On the nebula’s southern edge, it found a pulsar (a rotating neutron star) with the imposing designation CXOU J061705.3+222127.
However, researchers have also discovered that IC 443 is a weak X-ray source whose light is produced as electrons in the surrounding gas are released by heat generated from a central neutron star’s infrared emission. This differs from many supernova remnants whose X-ray emission comes from the wind generated by a pulsar, rather than its heat. But it’s difficult to see what’s really going on because a giant molecular cloud between us and IC 443 is absorbing lots of the X-rays and visible light the object is producing.
The structure of IC 443 has been heavily influenced by its surroundings. In the southeast part of the nebula, the supernova’s blast wave is interacting with a dense molecular cloud. The cloud has
slowed down the wave so that it’s now moving between 67,000 and 89,000 mph (108,000 and 144,000 km/h). Toward the northeast part of the nebula, however, the blast wave is hitting a cloud of hydrogen that is much less dense. There, it’s moving at between 180,000 and 220,000 mph (290,000 and 360,000 km/h).
Bushnell 200 f/3.5, Yashinon DX 200 f/4, Tair-3S 300mm f/4.5 on Canon EOS 4000D cameras +H-alpha exposues.
Avalon M-zero Obs mount.
Designer: Labelita
June Outfit
42 Color Fatpack (Mix and Match Colors)
Fits: Belleza Classic, Belleza Curvy, Erika, Kupra, Lara X, Lara X Petite, Legacy, Perky, Maitreya, Maitreya Petite, Reborn, Waifu
Taxi: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Phascogale/73/179/3901
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Head:
Designer: LOGO
M.A.B.E.L.Cybernetic Head V 1.0
M.A.B.E.L.-6 is an automaton, with a human-sculpted face, and visible gears and electronics around the neck. She also has copper "crown" to complete the look. The crown is optional and can be resized to help fit around hair.
The head comes with a variety of skins and makeup options as well as full support for LOGO bento facial animations. She is also Evo X compatible.
Skin Tone- LOGO M.A.B.E.L Alabaster (Clean version)
Shape: LOGO M.A.B.E.L.-6 v2.0 Shape
Animations Hud Used for facial smirk.
Body Skin-LOGO M.A.B.E.L.-6 v2.0 Skin Alabaster
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Body: Reborn
Aura: Emotional Circus "Interlinked Halo"
Eyes: Emotional Circus "Interlinked Eyes"
Collar: Emotional Circys "Interlinked Collar"
Hair: Yomi "Trash Panda"
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.
NGC 2392 taken last year 2024 in March with Edge HD 14 "inch and full frame QHY 410C camera . Crop it to 2000x1500 pixels to see more details .
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
The Helix nebula is an example of what our sun may look like once it has run out of fuel (hydrogen). As a star runs out of hydrogen it starts to expand and eject its layers. Says wiki, "The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula, formed by an intermediate to low-mass star, which sheds its outer layers near the end of its evolution.
The remnant central stellar core, known as the central star (CS) of the planetary nebula, is destined to become a white dwarf star. The observed glow of the central star is so energetic that it causes the previously expelled gases to brightly fluoresce. Yet this star's size is only about 2.5 % that of our sun and possibly of its original.
This particular nebula is one of the closest ones to us at around 650 light years. The object has been given numerous nick names such as "The eye of God" or "The eye of Sauron"
I took this very close to a full moon but got better results than I thought. It's basically in Hubble palette with some blend modifications (Red - 50% Sii and Ha; Green - 15 Ha and 85 Oiii; Blue - all Oiii) to make it look RGBish. Stars are so so as there was very little exposure (3 min per filter). Acquisition is about 3 hours of combined SHO taken from Chile with a 10 inch Astrograph and a ZWO ASI 6200 (bin2). Thanks for looking.
Can't see Mercury, but we have Venus, Moon, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn visible in the dawn sky today.
Strottner-Drechsler 17 (StDr 17) aka Sharpless 2-123 (Sh2-123), sometimes referred to as the “Tick Nebula” or “Flea Nebula”, is a dim planetary nebula previously thought to be an HII region. StDr17 is located approximately 12,000 light years away in the northwestern edge of Cygnus.
I cannot remember how I first stumbled across this target, but I liked it immediately. Well, “liked” in a sense—it reminded me of “Varroa destructor,” the invasive mite that jumped from Apis cerana, the Asian honey bee, to Apis mellifera, the European honey bee, and is responsible for countless colony deaths and many gray hairs on beekeeper heads. Including my own, as I’ve been keeping honey bees for a good while now.
So I had to image it.
Well, it is a challenging target to image, to say the least—my most challenging target to date—and only a handful of images have been shared on AstroBin. After a couple test runs with mixed results, I went on to collect data in June and August of 2021. I’ve been visiting this image in editing, off-and-on, until now, experimenting with new approaches and ideas.
Post-processing done in PixInsight. I stacked separate images for 1) background monochrome narrowband luminance, 2) multi-bandpass narrowband color, 3) and Hydrogen-alpha, and star data captured in 4) monochrome narrowband and 5) color. I returned for star data because the star field is rather dense and I wanted a head start with, clean, tight stars. Stacked images registered, cleaned up, calibrated, background gradient extraction, deconvolution, noise reduction, star reduction, etc. in PixInsight. I separated stars from backgrounds with StarNet and exported everything for editing in Adobe Photoshop. I did some manual noise cleanup (including with Topaz DeNoise), touchups for star removal, star reduction (including blending a couple separate attempts at star reduction), etc., and blended the channels in Adobe Photoshop.
AstroBin Link
I want to extend thanks to AstroEd for his Photoshop narrowband channel blending routine, which I borrowed from (1), and J-P Metsavainio’s tone-mapping routine, which helped a lot in processing background nebulosity around my stars (2).
AstroEd Photoshop Channel Blending
youtu.be/2XpmrjVSmHw (part 1)
J-P Metsavainio Photoshop Tone Mapping
Subject imaged at Antelope Island State Park, Utah, in the United States, between June and August of 2021.
Total Integration Time
- 12 hrs 42 minutes
CEM-40EC, Esprit 80ED, ASI2600MC, RTU
- 2021-06-21, 60x300s, Bortle 4
CEM-40EC, RASA-8, ASI2600MM, NBZ
- 2021-06-22, 18x300s, Bortle 4
CEM-40EC, RASA-8, ASI2600MM, Ha12
- 2021-06-27, 51x300s, Bortle 4
CEM-40EC, Esprit 80ED, ASI2600MM, RTU
- 2021-08-10, 48x60s, Bortle 4
CEM-40EC, Esprit 80ED, ASI2600MC
- 2021-08-11, 69x60s, Bortle 4
Information Sources
Astrobin photos by Goofi and Chris Sullivan.
More Information
planetarynebulae.net/EN/page_np.php?id=739
Planetary Nebula as opposed to HII Region
Atmospheric turbulence was quite bad tonight but pleased to get my first image of Mars. Southern Polar cap seen at the bottom.
The dark feature towards the top is Niliacus Lacus. The bright region on the left is the Tharsis region.
Celestron 9.25 inch SCT with ZWO224MC colour camera.
ZWO ADC at +/-2
FireCapture acquisition software
AutoStakkert!3 for stacking.
RegiStax6 for wavelet sharpening
Colour balance in PS.
Best 50% stacked of a 5000 frame video @ 108 frames per second. Focal length = 6000mm.
21 arcseconds diameter and increasing as it nears Earth in its orbit. It’s just after winter solstice on Mars (Ls =279) so Southern Hemisphere is tilted sunwards.
Magnitude -2.2
Distance 3.7 Light minutes
CM = 40
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
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).
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