Looking for a variable star like RS Puppis embedded in a nebula...

[rorymultistorey]

Hi all,

Help needed!

Nasa took this great timelapse video of RS Puppis...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geAjufAYAow

I'd like to try and do something similar in one of my astrobiscuit videos (www.youtube.com/astrobiscuit). Does anyone know of any other variable stars embedded in reflection nebula?

I was thinking of using telescope live's 1m newt in Chile to capture the variable star over a period of days and seeing if the varying light from the variable star altered the nebula.  Any help most appreciated. Tricky one I know.

 

Many thanks Rory

[andrew s]

Search " observing variable nebula nick hewitt " the pdf may be what you want.

Regards Andrew 

 

[rorymultistorey]

37 minutes ago, andrew s said:

Search " observing variable nebula nick hewitt " the pdf may be what you want.

Regards Andrew 

 

very cool thx Andrew 😉

[Martin Meredith]

Hi

Looking at my charts, there are a few reflection nebulae from the van den Bergh catalog that are marked as variable:

a few in Cassiopeia: VdB 5, VdB 7, VdB 9

also VdB 24 in Perseus

and VdB 34 in Auriga

I haven't observed these myself but they might be worth checking out.

cheers

Martin

http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1966AJ.....71..990V

[davhei]

Have you looked at NGC 2261? R Monocerotis is a T Tauri variable inside a reflection nebula. I’ve only observed it visually but found it quite beautiful.

[rorymultistorey]

On 19/10/2020 at 11:13, Martin Meredith said:

Hi

Looking at my charts, there are a few reflection nebulae from the van den Bergh catalog that are marked as variable:

a few in Cassiopeia: VdB 5, VdB 7, VdB 9

also VdB 24 in Perseus

and VdB 34 in Auriga

I haven't observed these myself but they might be worth checking out.

cheers

Martin

http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1966AJ.....71..990V

hey Martin, many thx I'll look into these. Current favourites for doing a time lapse image are: hubble variable nebula and corona Australis because they change relatively rapidly but hubble variable nebula is quiet at the moment...

 

[rorymultistorey]

1 hour ago, davhei said:

Have you looked at NGC 2261? R Monocerotis is a T Tauri variable inside a reflection nebula. I’ve only observed it visually but found it quite beautiful.

Cheers bud I'll look into this one too

[Marvin Jenkins]

On 19/10/2020 at 11:19, rorymultistorey said:

Hi all,

Help needed!

Nasa took this great timelapse video of RS Puppis...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geAjufAYAow

I'd like to try and do something similar in one of my astrobiscuit videos (www.youtube.com/astrobiscuit). Does anyone know of any other variable stars embedded in reflection nebula?

I was thinking of using telescope live's 1m newt in Chile to capture the variable star over a period of days and seeing if the varying light from the variable star altered the nebula.  Any help most appreciated. Tricky one I know.

 

Many thanks Rory

Just read your post after looking into studying variable stars. I have to ask..... are you saying you are going to privately hire a 1 m newt in Chile for a number of days (actually nights) to observe a stars variability?

I bought a Euro millions lottery ticket today and the jackpot is 17 million. How many nights would I get for that?

Marv

[rorymultistorey]

4 hours ago, Marvin Jenkins said:

Just read your post after looking into studying variable stars. I have to ask..... are you saying you are going to privately hire a 1 m newt in Chile for a number of days (actually nights) to observe a stars variability?

I bought a Euro millions lottery ticket today and the jackpot is 17 million. How many nights would I get for that?

Marv

come on Marv you'll be able to buy the bloomin observatory for that.  I'm getting my time for free bc the owners want the publicity.