Man, it's been 2 months since my last image and this one was scrapped together over 7 nights since then through breaks in clouds, under varying amounts of Moon, through high Cirrus and a couple of almost wasted nights due to Murphy and his clouds.
Seeing was good on one night when I was gathering the Halpha but the rest were varying levels of average to below average
Anyway, after thinking how am I going to get a decent image out of this piece meal data....I am actually pretty happy with how it came together
This beautiful magic egg of a planetary has two intriguing Ha jets emanating from each of its ends and not really this well shown in most other images on the net, so the good seeing that night deffinitely helped. The nebula floats nicely against a great carpet of distant background galaxies of all shapes and sizes too, so shame the seeing wasn't as good for the Lum gathering .
Cool things to look for when panning around:
1) A couple'a cool ring galaxies
2) An even cooler and much more distant version of this famous Hubble Tadpole Galaxy
That is simply outstanding Mike. The jet is really knotted. When there are so many galaxies in one small field of view, it leaves me thinking that there must be a countless number of civilisations out there.
Its been 5 months for me Mike, but I'm tinkering away always in the shed getting my gear running jqust right. Its not far away now before Terry and I are up and running with our remote observatories. But in the meanwhile, its very painful just watching nice astro images come through.
I really like the subtle details in this object. It's looks like a translucent orb hanging in space is something interesting inside. It is a great looking photo.
I agree with you about the clouds and weather Mike. Seems like it is the same all across the state (having said that I manage to capture four hours of data last night).
This is quite a special image and that OTA is working especially well. Interesting structures across the 'shell' of the object with a slight magenta overlay near the core star. Lovely.
I was interested in the red material at the 2 O'Clock position and found this entry in Wikipedia "Reddish matter, believed to have been ejected from the original star before its final collapse, is visible in images. I think your description is much more informative.
An outstanding picture of this object Mike - one of the best I've seen. I'm surprised that so many people haven't seen it before. I thought it was well known.
We dug out our old shot from about 8 years ago. Embarrassing. We called it the "space embryo", because it looked like a little guy (intriguingly wearing a backpack and carrying a baseball bat) inside an egg, with a stringy bit of vitelline membrane at one end. You've gone far deeper and far sharper, and shown that there's a stringy bit at both ends.
Fantastic Image there Mike.
Interesting object, as a PNeb it doesn't have the usual characteristics of an outline or shell around its circumference - quite a diffused appearance to it but none the less a great target!
Really well done on grabbing the central details within, lots going on in there & the jets are unique - top shelf
and this one was scrapped together over 7 nights since then through breaks in clouds, under varying amounts of Moon, through high Cirrus and a couple of almost wasted nights due to Murphy and his clouds.
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