Fleming 1 - with red wings

[strongmanmike]

This is a tiny planetary in Centaurus about 10,000 light years away. The bright central oval is quite small at about 50 arc sec in diameter, while the two red jets extend out to nearly 5 arc min across. There is thought to be a rare pair of binary white dwarf stars at the centre of the nebula.

Seeing wasn't crash hot (decent steady skies seem to be rather elusive of late) and the skies were only really cloud free for one out of the three nights it took to collect the nearly 13hrs of data, with lots of high cloud around Canberra lately :(

Fleming 1 (http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/163000756/original) (100% Crop)

To identify the fine features captured HERE (http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/163001106/original) is a comparison with a VLT image

Mike

[h0ughy]

well that's a pretty ordinary effort!!!:eyepop:

the detail is fantastic Mr Strongperson, and by the looks of the posting time you had a good night. love the comparison - certainly a world class effort:thumbsup:

[RickS]

Haven't seen that one before. Great catch, Mike!

[Ryderscope]

A fascinating little PN Mike with lots of interesting features.

[Slawomir]

A very pretty nebula :thumbsup:

Your images are always very interesting Mike and you often show us rarely photographed DSOs, thank you!

[alpal]

Nice work Mike,
it also shows how advanced the VLT is.

cheers
Allan

[Atmos]

Fantastic little planetary Mike! The comparison just shows what depth can be achieved with very modest equipment when compared against the light bucket of the VLT.

[peter_4059]

Great capture Mike. Very interesting target.

[gvanhau]

Beautifull object and nicely captured. I had not seen it before.

[Tony_]

Great image Mike!

I tried this one once but only captured the central part. I was hoping someone like you would do this one. I haven't seen any other amateur images of this.

Tony.

[strongmanmike]

Cheers guys, glad it was of interest :) The two red antennae make it I recon and set it apart from most other disc like planetary nebs and hence why I decided to devote 3 nights to this tiny little bugger :thumbsup: I got 90min of Lum too that I was intending to use to bring out some background details but the seeing was quite poor and it didn't add anything and actually degraded the image slightly, so I left it out. We all lament our less than ideal seeing at times :rolleyes: but with such small objects it is super critical...in the end we use what we are given :)

Mike

[multiweb]

Superb! Nice catch. Some serious details in there. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[strongmanmike]

Cheers Marc, looks a bit like a bug with wings huh? :)

Mike

[PRejto]

Fascinating object, Mike. Great work!

Peter

[astroron]

Brilliant as usual Mike. :eyepop:
Thanks for posting:thanx:
Cheers:thumbsup:

[strongmanmike]

Cheers Peter and Ron glad ya enjoyed the view :thumbsup:

Mike

[Derek Klepp]

What an interesting planetary .Weather conditions similar up here

[Placidus]

Delightful! And very new and different. Intriguing.

[codemonkey]

Now there's an odd one, thanks for sharing Mike!

[gregbradley]

Great image Mike. Another obscure but photogenic one.

Greg.

[strongmanmike]

Cheers guys :thumbsup: and Derek, the high cloud can be really annoying, it kinda teases you, makes you think its a clear sky...but it isn't :scared:...then you wish you had started imaging something brighter, do I change objects or not? Do I change objects or not..:question:...I just kept on going :rolleyes:.. and drinking beer while trying to decide :P

Mike

[topheart]

Hi Mike,

That is awesome!
A very weird one - mystical almost.

Cheers,
Tim

[strongmanmike]

Cheers Timbo :thumbsup:

Mike

[Stevec35]

Very nice Mike! Certainly a new one on me. Is it a Sakib suggestion?

Cheers

Steve

[rustigsmed]

nice little obscure object, and done very well as usual,
thanks for sharing!

russ

[strongmanmike]

Cheers Steve and yes Sakib has some great suggestions, according to him this is the first amateur image of FG1...I suspect he means first deep amateur image that he has seen..but who knows :question:



Cheers Russell :thumbsup:

[deeplook]

Hello Mike,

this is a really cool image, well done!

Markus

[Ross G]

What an unusual object...beautiful!

Looks like a mask with 2 big eyes and flaming hair.

An amazing capture Mike!

Ross.

[strongmanmike]

Cheers Markus and Rossco, something a bit different :thumbsup:

Mike

[Flugel88]

wow what an odd PN i have never seen before.
Great image Mike:thumbsup:

When comparing your image to the VLT you managed to capture some of that green wisp at the bottom.

[strongmanmike]

Cheers Michael, I seem to have got everything the VLT got... just more faintly and more blurred :lol:...less stars though of course, due to the slight difference in aperture :P

Mike

[cazza132]

Wow, impressive stuff Mike! :thumbsup:

[Geoff45]

That's a new object for me Mike. The red wings are a pretty amazing feature and you've done well to get them in such detail.
Geoff

[strongmanmike]

Cheers Troy...only a sliiiightly narrower field than you generally work with :P:



Cheers Geoff :thumbsup:

Mike

[Shiraz]

Another startling and impressive object Mike. thanks for educating us. regards Ray

[marc4darkskies]

Fascinating little object! Nice one Mike! :thumbsup:

[strongmanmike]

Cheers Ray, been diving on the Great Barrier Sky for some years now so gotta try things other than M8 fish and Cen urchins time to time, huh? :P



Cheers Marcus

Mike