NGC 1333 Nebula and Stardust

[evansg]

NGC 1333 is seen in visible light as a reflection nebula, dominated by bluish hues characteristic of starlight reflected by dust. A mere 1,000 light-years distant toward the constellation Perseus, it lies at the edge of a large, star-forming molecular cloud. This image shows details of the dusty region along with hints of contrasting red emission from Herbig-Haro objects, jets and shocked glowing gas emanating from recently formed stars. In fact, NGC 1333 contains hundreds of stars less than a million years old, most still hidden from optical telescopes by the pervasive stardust. The chaotic environment may be similar to one in which our own Sun formed over 4.5 billion years ago. 

Telescope: Officina Stellare RH200
Mount: Astrophysics Mach1 GTO 
Camera: QSI 683 Mono
Filters: Astrodon Gen 2 LRGB
Total Exposure: 7h

More: http://www.celestialpixels.com/Nebulae/i-jKpHfVZ/A

[Tom OD]

Very nice.

[PhotoGav]

Excellent image! I've just had a browse around your website and it's packed with great pictures. Looks like you have some fun out there in the warm dark long nights in Greece! Great work.

[jase81]

Wow very nice

[Phillyo]

Wow. That is just mind blowing. I love these dark emission nebula, would love to try and capture some details of these one day. Stunning, thank you for sharing.

Phil

[greglloyd]

Really nice!

[ollypenrice]

A great object beautifully captured.

Olly

[AndyUK]

This is one of my favourite objects (which always reminds me of something out of "Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind" ).  Your version is right up there as one of the best I've seen - Superb...