🍬GEMINI NEBULA NGC 2371/2 with a 12" f/5 GSO DOBSONIAN

[Tiago Ferreira]

🍬GEMINI NEBULA NGC 2371/2 - (ap. mag 11,2)

This image confused astronomers when it was first studied — rather than being classified as a single object, it was instead recorded as two objects, owing to its symmetrical lobed structure (known as NGC 2371 and NGC 2372).

These two lobes are visible to the lower left and upper right of the frame, and together form something known as a planetary nebula. (in:Nasa)

 

To me it looks like a candy, to my wife like an eye and to many people like a peanut. At the end what matters is that you let flow your imagination while admiring this wonderful and complex structure.

 

I've catched it last night at the middle of my visual observation session 🙂

12" f/5 GSO Dobsonian

Geoptik Eartha Equatorial Platform

ZWO ASI224MC

Baader IR/UV cut L-filter

Gain=550

Exposure=1s

800 frames

50 Darks

800 bias

Processed in DSS+PS

 

[ultranova]

Thanks for sharing, I have never seen this one before,

Nicely captured.

well done 

Paul

[Tiago Ferreira]

8 minutes ago, ultranova said:

Thanks for sharing, I have never seen this one before,

Nicely captured.

well done 

Paul

Because it's hard to see. 11,2 mag.

When i saw it i pause my observation and took the cam and laptop right away to frame this beauty.

[MartinB]

You are doing a great job introducing us to these PNs.  At some point you will have to show us a montage!  More great work.

[Tiago Ferreira]

1 minute ago, MartinB said:

You are doing a great job introducing us to these PNs.  At some point you will have to show us a montage!  More great work.

Oh, that's planned Martin. You bet it.

I want to share the Dobsonian aperture power to help to break the myth.

Nice and steady. Cheers.

[Pompey Monkey]

That is amazing.

The PN is approximately the same angular diameter as Jupiter!!!

Edit to post the Astrometry result:

https://nova.astrometry.net/user_images/4450663#original

Edited March 14, 2021 by Pompey Monkey

[vineyard]

I just watched one of your videos on true north @astrocanito & that's a great trick w the pencil & solar noon.  I had no idea about that & it should be v helpful for one area where I can get some nice sky views but cannot see Polaris at all.  Obrigado!

[Tiago Ferreira]

56 minutes ago, vineyard said:

I just watched one of your videos on true north @astrocanito & that's a great trick w the pencil & solar noon.  I had no idea about that & it should be v helpful for one area where I can get some nice sky views but cannot see Polaris at all.  Obrigado!

Thanks!

[Fraunhoffer]

On 13/03/2021 at 11:16, astrocanito said:

🍬GEMINI NEBULA NGC 2371/2 - (ap. mag 11,2)

This image confused astronomers when it was first studied — rather than being classified as a single object, it was instead recorded as two objects, owing to its symmetrical lobed structure (known as NGC 2371 and NGC 2372).

These two lobes are visible to the lower left and upper right of the frame, and together form something known as a planetary nebula. (in:Nasa)

 

To me it looks like a candy, to my wife like an eye and to many people like a peanut. At the end what matters is that you let flow your imagination while admiring this wonderful and complex structure.

 

I've catched it last night at the middle of my visual observation session 🙂

12" f/5 GSO Dobsonian

Geoptik Eartha Equatorial Platform

ZWO ASI224MC

Baader IR/UV cut L-filter

Gain=550

Exposure=1s

800 frames

50 Darks

800 bias

Processed in DSS+PS

 

Great. I'll have to get my dob out to look for this next time we have some sky. Nice to see a photo with a dob too. I don't have a platform so i wait until target is towards the West to get a few seconds exposure without field rotation with alt-az.

 

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Nice capture. I have spotted it with my C8. Total brightness is not great, but because it is such a compact structure, the surface brightness isn't bad at all. A UHC filter helps

[Tiago Ferreira]

17 hours ago, Fraunhoffer said:

Great. I'll have to get my dob out to look for this next time we have some sky. Nice to see a photo with a dob too. I don't have a platform so i wait until target is towards the West to get a few seconds exposure without field rotation with alt-az.

 

with some more work you can do it. there is people that reset and repeat and then process.