Owl Nebula ..and a seriously deep-sky Quasar !!

[Craney]

A contributor on Astrobin has recently posted a picture of the Owl nebula with a nearby Quasar. 

"How amazing"  I thought, probably one of those humongous scopes and totally beyond my skill set ........ but hang on there.   

Immediately I scurried off to my hard drive and dug out my attempts at this object. Sure enough,  there it is... well I 'm hoping it is.

It is actually quite hard to verify, even with the internet.     The best I.D. I have is  QUASAR J111504.4+55-143  with a magnitude of  +19.1 .

Here is the amazing bit,   distance = 8.2 Billion light years.    That just seems incredible....... from my back garden !!!!!!

Anybody else know anything of this object ?    

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Sean

 

 

Edited April 13, 2020 by Craney

[lux eterna]

21 hours ago, Craney said:

 That just seems incredible....... from my back garden !!!!!!
 

I fully agree, and know exactly what you are talking about. Some time ago, I captured a quasar 12 billion LY away: This one 

So, "right after" Big Bang, this quasar was created and sent away photons in all directions - some of these in the direction that much later, when our galaxy was created, would hit our solar system, our planet etc. There was time for life and civilizations to arise, cameras were invented, the Sony factory made this specific sensor that happened to be the final endpoint for these photons - Splash. And we can see the result. Mind-boggling.

Ragnar

 

[Wyvernp]

23 hours ago, Craney said:

A contributor on Astrobin has recently posted a picture of the Owl nebula with a nearby Quasar. 

"How amazing"  I thought, probably one of those humongous scopes and totally beyond my skill set ........ but hang on there.   

Immediately I scurried off to my hard drive and dug out my attempts at this object. Sure enough,  there it is... well I 'm hoping it is.

It is actually quite hard to verify, even with the internet.     The best I.D. I have is  QUASAR J111504.4+55-143  with a magnitude of  +19.1 .

Here is the amazing bit,   distance = 8.2 Billion light years.    That just seems incredible....... from my back garden !!!!!!

Anybody else know anything of this object ?    

<details.   C8 EdgeHD with Atik 414 mono.  LRGB shot  60mins L and 45mins each on RGB>

< The Owl looks like he's squinting... must have sat on a thorn   😖 >

Sean

 

 

That's amazing, I just checked my shot of it from a few weeks back and it's there too

Thanks so much for sharing this.

[Ramsay]

On 13/04/2020 at 17:53, Craney said:

A contributor on Astrobin has recently posted a picture of the Owl nebula with a nearby Quasar. 

"How amazing"  I thought, probably one of those humongous scopes and totally beyond my skill set ........ but hang on there.   

Immediately I scurried off to my hard drive and dug out my attempts at this object. Sure enough,  there it is... well I 'm hoping it is.

It is actually quite hard to verify, even with the internet.     The best I.D. I have is  QUASAR J111504.4+55-143  with a magnitude of  +19.1 .

Here is the amazing bit,   distance = 8.2 Billion light years.    That just seems incredible....... from my back garden !!!!!!

Anybody else know anything of this object ?    

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Sean

 

 

There is a typo in your description of the Quasar it should be J111504.4+550143 - I think somebody hit the minus key instead of the zero and its been cut and pasted in several places on the WWW.

 

 http://simbad.cds.unistra.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=@553563&Name=[VV2006] J111504.4+550143&submit=submit

[robin_astro]

It is indeed remarkable what can be observed with modest equipment thanks to modern sensor technology. With the addition of a relatively simple spectrograph it is even possible to verify the redshift of these and even more distant objects. Here are some quasars at  4.3-4.5 redshift (over 12 billion years light travel time)

https://britastro.org/observations/observation.php?id=20210411_134753_85f4b3ebf4faaefe

Cheers

Robin