Friday, May 7, 2010

The Ghost of Jupiter

Here's one from tonight. 18 - 1 min images. SW254N EQ5P mount, DSI IIc imager, SSAG, captured with Nebulosity, final process in PS elements.



From Wikipedia:
NGC 3242 is a planetary nebula located in the constellation Hydra.
William Herschel discovered this planetary nebula on February 7, 1785, and cataloged it as H IV.27. John Herschel observed it from the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, in the 1830s, and numbered it as h 3248, and included it in the 1864 General Catalogue as GC 2102; this became NGC 3242 in J. L. E. Dreyer's New General Catalogue of 1888.
This planetary nebula is most frequently called the Ghost of Jupiter, or Jupiter's Ghost, but it is also sometimes referred to as the Eye Nebula. It can be easily observed with amateur telescopes, and appears bluish green to most observers. Larger telescopes can distinguish the outer halo as well.[2]

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