Well, not oft imaged, given the Hubble shot pretty much kills any reason to. The fine detail is just impossible to render like Hubble (its quite small)
. Anyway, I didnt know that to start, so here it is. Ive stolen a description for it, very interesting object actually. Its part of an LMC pic im processing with some other very interesting views to come soon.
N49 (also designated LMC N 49 or DEM L 190) is a supernova remnant of about 75 light-years across, located within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), some 160,000 light-years away in the southern constellation Dorado. N49 is the brightest supernova remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It has million-degree gas in its center but cooler gas at the outer parts, between 8,000 and 300,000 degrees.
The supernova remnant N 49 is only a few thousand years old. However, because of its distance, it takes the light of the stellar explosion 160,000 years to reach Earth. So, by our Earth calendars the blast actually occurred over 160,000 years ago.
A massive dying star produced a strong wind that cleared a low density bubble around it. When the star exhausted its supply of hydrogen, it exploded, sending a shock wave through the interstellar gas. The shock wave has now encountered the shell of dense gas at the edge of the bubble, what slows the shock wave to 100 – 300 kilometers per second.
The core of the original star, which lies deep within this cloud of gases, is a neutron star that is spinning at the blinding speed of one revolution every eight seconds. Its magnetic field is about a quadrillion (a thousand times a trillion) times more powerful than that of the Earth, putting it in the rare category of “magnetars”. This magnetar hurtles through the supernova debris cloud at over 1,200 kilometers per second.
Taken on an RCOS 10" RC Scope at f9, SBIG STXL6303E Camera and PME mount at itelescopes Siding Spring Observatory.
Processed with CCDstack, Star Tools and Photoshop. Narrowband Ha, SII and OIII filters used. A lot of hours, but not relevant really, its pretty bright.
