Thursday, March 10, 2011

M97 The Owl nebula

I'm still going through the learning curve. However I was able to get some great guiding last night and tried changing my ISO to 1600. I found this worked great and took 30 each 2 min images. Captured and pre-processed in Nebulosity, final process in PS elements.
SW 254N / EQ5pro / Canon 350d / guided image binned 2x2.

From Wikipedia:
The Owl Nebula (also known as Messier Object 97 or NGC 3587) is a planetary nebula in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781.
M97 is regarded as one of the more complex of the planetaries. The 16th magnitude central star has about 0.7 solar mass and the nebula itself about 0.15 solar mass. The nebula formed roughly 6,000 years ago.
The nebula gets it name due to the appearance of owl-like "eyes" when view through a large (>200 mm) telescope under dark sky conditions with the aid of a so-called "nebula filter." The "eyes" are also easily visible through photographs taken of the nebula.

No comments:

Post a Comment