Monday 7 July 2008

The Crab Nebula.

Object: Messier 1 (NGC 1952)
Type: Supernova remnant
Constellation: Taurus
Distance: 6500 light years

Average of 16 90 second sub-frames acquired on the evening of 30 December 2004 using a Starlight Xpress SXVH9 and the Vixen f5.6 refractor, all stacked and processed in AIP4Win and PSP7. Click on any of the images to enlarge.

Crop and enlargement of the first image. Some of the filamentary structure can be seen despite the relatively low focal length and resolution.

This was a much earlier effort from about two years previous, using a "prosumer" digital camera coupled afocally to a 25mm eyepiece on the VC200L. This is an average of six 1 minute frames, processed in AIP4Win and PSP7.

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