An Anonymous Mountain in Puppis

[Andy01]

Hi Folks,

Poking around Galaxy map I found this cool mountain shaped, Ha rich object near NGC 2451 and ó Pup. So I thought I'd have a go at imaging it. :D

No idea what it is or how to properly ID it - so would welcome input on this. :shrug: Sky Safari 5 pro suggests IREC (InfraRed Excess Clouds) 374 Dark Nebula...

It's dim though, this is 3.5 hrs 5nm Ha already.
Will have to test to see if there's any O3 or S2 present.

Anyway - thought some may find it interesting to see something different! :)

Big (noisy) one HERE (https://www.astrobin.com/335936/)

[strongmanmike]

Well blow me down, guess who was gunna start on that same thing after full moon??? :lol: I couldnt recall an image of it before and a search showed very few, so thought, might have a go....and your result confirms it to be a most worthwhile subject. Nice :thumbsup:

Mike

[Camelopardalis]

Nicely detailed Andy :thumbsup:

[Peter Ward]

Wow.

A really interesting object. Now on my hit list. :thumbsup:

As for how to capture more data , you need to up photon capture rate = Bigger 'scope :D

[Andy01]

Lol, great minds think alike hey Mikey :) Seriously though - with your mighty FOV it should be very cool :cool3:

Personally - I've only just recovered from gathering 8 bl*%dy panels of NB data on the Seagull - still have to assemple it all :sadeyes:



Cheers Dunk :thumbsup:



Cool Peter, give it some mega photons!

As to a bigger scope, well I have an RC8, but the Moonlite focuser I ordered has so far been from USA>Melbourne (wrong address)>USA>AUSTRIA (Wrong country!) > ? I may see it by Christmas - it's probably racked up more frequent flyer points than any other item on this forum already. :sadeyes:

[willik]

Nice image different to what I seen clean the noise up a bit and it would be
great .
Martin

[SimmoW]

Yes another different one Andy, you must be trawling thru all those catalogues!

Ah I see you're doing the Seagull too, more great minds at work 😁

Your pixel scale is very large, so now i see why youre having to do so many panels! Must be fun

[Placidus]

Brilliant! It looks reminiscent of the Great Wave by Hokusai. That would make sense for an object in Argo.

[Lognic04]

Wow that's really cool! :thumbsup:

[Peter Ward]

Ok I give up. :shrug:

...anyone know what the co-ordinates of this puppy are?...maybe even a catalog number?

SkyX and computer so far say "no"

[LewisM]

RA center: 115.445 degrees

DEC center: -41.657 degrees

[LewisM]

Ran it through nova.astrometry.net:

Calibration
Center (RA, Dec): (115.445, -41.658)
Center (RA, hms): 07h 41m 46.719s
Center (Dec, dms): -41° 39' 27.982"
Size: 3.04 x 2.29 deg
Radius: 1.905 deg
Pixel scale: 3.29 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: Up is 293 degrees E of N
WCS file: wcs.fits
New FITS image: new-image.fits
Reference stars nearby (RA,Dec table): rdls.fits
Stars detected in your images (x,y table): axy.fits
Correspondences between image and reference stars (table): corr.fits
KMZ (Google Sky): image.kmz
World Wide Telescope: view in WorldWideTelescope

[gregbradley]

What an interesting object. Is like the Horsehead without the Horse!
Nice find.

Greg.

[Atmos]

It’s a fascinating Ha object Andy! It does look as if it’ll be relatively weak in OIII and SII but I’d be happy to be proven wrong ;)

[Rkonrad]

Dont know what that is but looks spectacular

[Ryderscope]

Good one Andy. Some SII and OIII will be very interesting.

[JA]

It looks heavenly Andy. Looking forward to more :thumbsup:

Best
JA

[markas]

Great find! SII and OIII might be interesting, but it's a good image in Ha alone.

Mark

[marc4darkskies]

Very cool indeed Andy! Definitely worth climbing!! :thumbsup::)

[RickS]

Nice find, Andy :thumbsup:

[Stevec35]

That's a very interesting looking object Andy. Must have a go at it myself sometime. Looks like it would look great as a SHO image.

Steve

[multiweb]

Cool shot. Something else to hammer now. :thumbsup:

[RickS]

Hit it hard, Marc :thumbsup: