quick red spider

[Shiraz]

Hi

Clouds have been overwhelming lately, but I had about an hour of good Ha and another hour of so-so Ha data of this object from a month ago. Put it with a little bit of colour taken recently (in desparation) while the moon was up.

The image is scaled by 150% since this thing is very small, but it is a quite spectacular bipolar PN with quite large faint extensions beyond the four bright lobe edges and a very bright core with a small darker central region - and yes, it is red! Thanks for looking. Regards ray

SW250f4 with RCC1
SX 694
EQ6
HaRGB

[gregbradley]

A very interesting object. A bit like the Butterfly Nebula.

Greg.

[multiweb]

Was expecting the tarantula. Never seen that one before. Pretty tiny.

[Shiraz]

Thanks Greg. these bipolar PNs all seem to have quite similar structure. Although this one is called the red spider, it certainly does look like a butterfly as well. the Hubble shots of this show some very beautiful and graceful detail in the clouds - I could only get a rough glimpse of the detail, but it was still worth doing.



thanks Marc. yep it's small - the main nebula has about the same angular extent as Jupiter.

[RickS]

Tricky and interesting target, Ray. Well done!

[strongmanmike]

Excellent quicky Ray! Love the negative view too, shows some nice faint extensions, very cool little PN that. There are so many out there...I recon if I ever got automated (one day :rolleyes: and prefereably with a longer FL scope) I'd like to do a few nights script and hammer some quicky PN's one after the other.

Mike

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Geez Ray that's challenging!

I presume it's NGC 6537 in Sagittarius ?

If so guide 8 has it at 15 arc seconds, that's small!

Good imaging BTW!:thumbsup:

Cheers,

Justin.

[Regulus]

That's impressive Ray.

[Shiraz]

Thanks very much Rick


thanks Mike. what sort of pixel scale do you think is needed? - a bit more image scale is definitely worthwhile for these things.


yep, its 6537 - not big and flashy, but I think it is fascinating nonetheless.


Thanks Trevor

[Rod771]

Nice work Ray! Certainly more to it as revealed in the negative. Well done!

[Shiraz]

thanks Rod. regards Ray