Longmore3 Planetary Nebula in Puppis

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Well not a new tiny faint spheroidal galaxy buuuut I think this may be the first amateur (or at least we couldn't find another..?) image taken of this baby...? and because of this I was asked to image it by Sakib Rasool

...so here it is .

Also known as Wray 17-1 this small faint planetary nebula is in Puppis and this is perhaps the only full colour image ever taken of this little beauty? The main ring is only about 1.5 arc min in diameter and the faint outer OIII halo extends out to about 3 arc min in diameter. Floating in a faint wafting sea of red ionised Hydrogen (part of the Gum Nebula), it makes for a lovely scene I recon

Longmore3 (100% crop)

Full Frame

The only other decent image I could find taken of this little baby was one by ESO but it is not a full colour image

Enjoy

Mike

[Andy01 (Andy)]

Well now that's just amazing!
Kinda cute too, bit like a distorted blue eyeball.
Great stuff Mike

[glend (Glen)]

Mike what equipment was used to capture that image?
Very nice btw

[Atmos (Colin)]

Really nice job on such a small planetary!

[Shiraz (Ray)]

wonderful image Mike. Certainly looks like another first .
Are you going to try for LoTr1 as well? could be a nice double.

FWIW, I found the following paper to be informative on how these very pretty objects might form. Wonderful that we can see a few, given that the the odds are something around 1 in a million against any given star being in this state (I think).
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1309.4307v1.pdf

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Amazing amount of internal detail. Lovely work. Lots and lots of tiny galaxies in the background too, easily differentiable from stars. To boldly go ...

[Phil Hart]

Originally Posted by glend

Mike what equipment was used to capture that image?
Very nice btw

If you follow the links you'll see Mike has provided fairly comprehensive details below the image .

Nice work Mike

[astroron (Ron)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Well not a new tiny faint spheroidal galaxy buuuut I think this may be the first amateur (or at least we couldn't find another..?) image taken of this baby...? and because of this I was asked to image it by Sakib Rasool

...so here it is .

Also known as Wray 17-1 this small faint planetary nebula is in Puppis and this is perhaps the only full colour image ever taken of this little beauty? The main ring is only about 1.5 arc min in diameter and the faint outer OIII halo extends out to about 3 arc min in diameter. Floating in a faint wafting sea of red ionised Hydrogen, it makes for a lovely scene I recon

Longmore3 (100% crop)

Full Frame

The only other decent image I could find taken of this little baby was one by ESO but it is not a full colour image

Enjoy

Mike

Great work as usual Mike
That ESO link is not valid according to the page I go too.
Cheers

[Shiraz (Ray)]

Originally Posted by astroron

Great work as usual Mike
That ESO link is not valid according to the page I go too.
Cheers

Mike - hope this is OK with you. try this one Ron http://cseligman.com/text/stars/planetary.htm
second one down.

[astroron (Ron)]

Originally Posted by Shiraz

Mike - hope this is OK with you. try this one Ron http://cseligman.com/text/stars/planetary.htm
second one down.

Thanks Thats the site it took me too but there was no where else to go,just the heading.
The link you gave me worked.
Cheers

[RickS (Rick)]

Very nice, Mike! Another small gem. Sakib certainly knows some obscure planetaries

Cheers,
Rick.

[gregbradley]

That a fab image. Its a very picturesque little planetary. Nice work.

Greg.

[topheart]

Mike,
Congratulations !!..... You must be very very proud of that ....is it a boy or a girl?

Cheers,
Tim

[Flugel88 (Michael)]

I love seeing these little obscure rarely imaged PN's,
Thanks for sharing mike fantastic image as always.

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Very nice image Mike. Sakib asked me about this one too. No need to bother now.

Steve

[Ryderscope (Rodney)]

That's very special Mike. It's good to see some of these seldom imaged objects and the technical discussions are a bonus. From a non technical perspective I think that this one looks like a detached eyeball floating in space.

[DJT (David)]

Hi Mike
Love the image, the way it hangs off the Ha in the background is really cool. Enjoying your delving into the "off the beaten track" and then just plain weird.

But who is Sakib Rasool? I see his site, he has a good collection of links, but not sure how he fits in?

Ps, excuse my ignorance..

[Slawomir (Suavi)]

Very interesting nebula, thank you Mike for sharing. I like the full frame image the most - it is always fun exploring your images and appreciating fine detail and counting distant fuzzy cosmic cities.

[SpaceNoob (Chris)]

The full frame of this one looks pretty damn amazing. Some good detail on that nebula and I like the tiny faint galaxies across the field.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Sorry for my tardy response, I was away from Friday to today, I had to bury my dear'ol dad in Newcastle and celebrate one of his grandchildren's 21st aaand have an Australia Day BBQ.. so t'was both a sad and happy time

Anyway, thanks for all your comments

Yes very interesting paper Ray...bit long for me to stay focused but what I kinda skimmed over was indeed quite interesting and thanks for redirecting my false link there

Glen I see Phil pointed out the obvious to you

Tim, that's a tough one..not sure, I guess it is more blue than pink... so we will make it a boy

Steve, you are welcome

Rodney I agree about it looking like an eyeball

David, Sakib is just a bit of a fountain of object knowledge and a self confessed planetary nebula tragic

Thanks again everyone and BTW, the wafty Hydrogen background is part of the Gum Nebula.

Mike