Here is an image I did last night and Merry Christmas to everyone!
Paul Mayo
The Running Man Nebula - NGC 1973-75-77
Situated just North of the Great Nebula in Orion is the bright-bluish reflection nebula known as the Running Man Nebula.
The Running Man Nebula was given this nick-name after early astronomers saw that the bright-bluish reflection nebula surrounded a darker pinkish-coloured emission nebula whose outline appeared like the silhouette of a running man, particularly when observed through a telescope.
The Running Man Nebula reflects star-light back to Earth produced by the bright white-blue stars scattered in and around the nebula. Some of these stars appear still partially embedded in this star making nebula.
The Running Man Nebula appears to be part of the Great Nebula in Orion separated only by a thinning of the nebula which divides the two nebulae into separate celestial objects. In this darker region of less nebula (lower right area of image - South) those with keen eyes can see many interesting objects that include; wisps of nebulae with bright knots at one end, a small bright-yellowish nebula surrounding a star, and filamentary structure of the dark coloured nebula that reach toward the bottom of this image.
Image Details
Field of View: ~45 x 33 arc-minutes.
Orientation: North is toward top-left of this image.
Telescope: 304mm f/5 reflector telescope, hand guided.
Camera: Canon EOS 300D Digital Rebel.
Exposures:
3 x 2-minute exposures @ ISO200.
3 x 6-minute exposures @ ISO1600.
Total Exposure time: 24 minutes.
Sky Conditions Seeing: 9.5/10 (excellent seeing),
Wind: 1/10 Moisture: 1/10.
Ambient Temperature: guess < 20° C.
Notes:
used Baader Coma Corrector.
Gibbous Moon rising ends imaging session.
Mr Alder wont be happy, you got one more up on him, thats fantastic. You know he is leaning more to a hutech camera with every passing day Paul! this might just drive him to go and order one
Only chriticism and I am being padantic....I would have liked to seen it without a partial image of the orion....but thats just me.....the orion fully in or out of the picture not half in.
Listen to me.....I'm trying to sound like I actualy know something about Astrophotography...I better stop there before I make myself look really stupid...I do a good enough job looking stupid at star parties...hehehe
yes very nice shot Paul. The red inside it is an indicator of a nice deep shot. Ive got some more faint planetaries around Orion earmarked, then theres Eta Carina and environs rising in the morning too, so much coming up but not a lot in the early evening sky at this time.
Id love to see what we could do with a modified camera
Even I was impressed with this image. It showed me a lot of unexpected detail, especially the dark brownish lane on the southern edge of the running man nebula. That was a surprise to me, as I haven't seen any images before which highlighted that part of the nebula is brownish-yellow, while the rest of the nebula is mostly bright bluish.
Only chriticism and I am being padantic....I would have liked to seen it without a partial image of the orion....but thats just me.....the orion fully in or out of the picture not half in.
Yeah I did think about cropping it off, however the idea of it remaining was for reference, so amateurs (incl. myself) know where the Running Man Nebula is in relation to the M42 nebula. Of course if I had included more of M42 in the frame, then it would have dreadfully overexposured.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Striker
Listen to me.....I'm trying to sound like I actualy know something about Astrophotography...I better stop there before I make myself look really stupid...I do a good enough job looking stupid at star parties...hehehe
Mr Alder wont be happy, you got one more up on him, thats fantastic. You know he is leaning more to a hutech camera with every passing day Paul! this might just drive him to go and order one
Hi h0ughy,
I don't think it will bother Mr Alder, we complement each other, not compete with each other.
Yeah it's only a matter of time before I self-modify my own camera, envitable.
Even I was impressed with this image. It showed me a lot of unexpected detail, especially the dark brownish lane on the southern edge of the running man nebula. That was a surprise to me, as I haven't seen any images before which highlighted that part of the nebula is brownish-yellow, while the rest of the nebula is mostly bright bluish.
Paul
Now that I found some words to say- Yes exactly, that's the first thing that impressed me too - the dark brownish lane.
Unbelievable.
