Shapley 2

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

This is nothing to write home about but I thought I would finish off the Shapley catalog of planetary nebulae (there's only three of them). Shapley 2 is the smallest (officially 24" although there are some faint blobs and suspicion of a halo further out) and probably should be known as IC 4642. Seeing conditions weren't the best for this shot:

http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/S...16200_RC14.htm

For the record, this is my version of Shapley 1 (taken a few years ago):

http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/S...STL6303_RC.htm

And this is the recently posted Shapley 3:

http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/S...16200_RC14.htm

Cheers

Steve

[Atmos (Colin)]

That surely is a tiny little sucker Steve! Nicely captured and processed.

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by Atmos

That surely is a tiny little sucker Steve! Nicely captured and processed.

Thanks Colin. Hopefully the next object will be a bit bigger.

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Sharp! The white dwarf is the tiniest sharpest-imaginable pin-prick.

The nebula has the look of the tiny double shuttle-cock shape of Eta Carinae, here seen as two overlapping and slightly offset circles.

Well done!

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by Placidus

Sharp! The white dwarf is the tiniest sharpest-imaginable pin-prick.

The nebula has the look of the tiny double shuttle-cock shape of Eta Carinae, here seen as two overlapping and slightly offset circles.

Well done!

Thanks M&T. I'm officially starting to get bored with tiny planetaries so I may not be posting too many more of them.

[atalas]

Good work on all SteveIt's easy to see the difficulty in resolving detail and faint nebulosity as the size of the PLN gets smaller....looks like you've pushed SP 2 very hard.

I'm going to try these one of these days!

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Excellent Steve, bagging all three makes for a cool collection Sh2 and Sh3 have similar structures really.

Mike

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Excellent Steve, bagging all three makes for a cool collection Sh2 and Sh3 have similar structures really.

Mike

Thanks Mike. I guess they are slightly similar. I have to admit that all these little PNs are starting to look alike.

Originally Posted by atalas

Good work on all SteveIt's easy to see the difficulty in resolving detail and faint nebulosity as the size of the PLN gets smaller....looks like you've pushed SP 2 very hard.

I'm going to try these one of these days!

Thanks Louie. Yeah I did wind up the deconvolution and high pass filtering up a bit. I wanted to get as much detail out as possible. If you're going for one of these, Sp 1 is the one to try first because it's bigger.

[topheart]

Well done Steve!!
Cheers,
Tim

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by topheart

Well done Steve!!
Cheers,
Tim

Thanks Tim

[Nocturn (Phill)]

Originally Posted by Stevec35

Thanks Tim

Not much quantity but a lot of quality

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by Nocturn

Not much quantity but a lot of quality

Thanks Phil

[Slawomir (Suavi)]

Very interesting and nicely captured objects Steve, thank you for sharing

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by Slawomir

Very interesting and nicely captured objects Steve, thank you for sharing

Thanks Suavi

[RickS (Rick)]

Another cool, tiny critter, Steve!

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by RickS

Another cool, tiny critter, Steve!

Thanks Rick - that will be the last one for a while