Rcw 103

[sjastro]

A faint supernova remnant, not a common amateur target, but the neutron star is of interest to the professional.

I took the image with the primary purpose of locating the neutron star but unfortunately it is outside the field of view.:(

2 hrs red luminance, 1 hr R, 1 hr G, 1 hr B BRC-250.
http://users.westconnect.com.au/~sjastro/rcw103c.html (http://users.westconnect.com.au/%7Esjastro/rcw103c.html)

An interesting X-ray image from NASA can be found at:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/photos07-080.html

Regards

Steven

[renormalised]

Good shot Steven, you've also picked up a lot of surrounding faint emission neb':D

[bojan]

Fantastic image..
What is the scale of your image compared with NASA X-ray one? Because I see some similarities and just wander if you actually have neutron star in the centreof your FOV

[sjastro]

Thanks Bojan.

Despite the vague similarities between both images, each image is showing a different region of the SNR.

The optical region in my image is roughly centered on:
RA 16 hr 17.5 m, Dec -51 07.

The neutron star is located at RA 16 hr 13.8 m, Dec -50 55.

The FOV of my image is approximately 40 X 27 arc-minutes unfortunately not large enough to pick up the neutron star.



Thanks Carl.

Regards

Steven

[tornado33]

Excellent work. You can see the crumpled paper look of the detail within the brighter nebula. Such a rarely imaged object yet such a nice one to image.
Scott

[atalas]

Nice work Steve!

[DavidU]

Excellent Steve
Here is the Neutron star field
http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/alapre.pl?-c=16+13.8+-50+55&button=RGB

[Alchemy]

very nice steven, good star colors, subtle detail in the neb... nicely colored too, you make it all look too easy

clive.

[Paul Haese]

nice image Steven, the faint nebulosity is very cool.

[sjastro]

Thanks Scott, Louie, David, Clive and Paul for your comments.

Scott your excellent image pointed me to this object.

Clear skies

Steven

[sjastro]

I might have to stretch the image and print it out to find the exact centre.
It's not obvious if the neutron star is in the image.

Regards

Steven