WR 134 and the Ring Nebula - the power of progress!

[Yoddha]

Hello,

This is my second attempt at this target. The first one was 6 years ago, when it was a much more exotic project than now  Six years later the cameras and the software are much better and give more opportunities to explore the faint edges of the universe! Of course, the filters are of great help... I'm curious where we will be after another 6 years!

Here you can see the previous attempt - https://www.astrobin.com/316580/

The star Wolf-Rayet 134 (the brightest star in the center of the Ring Nebula) is a very hot star with temperature over 63,000 K and luminosity around 400,000 times than the Sun. Its radiation and very powerful winds are the reason to form the ring-shaped nebula in the mix of stellar matter and surrounding gas. Despite it looking like a planetary nebula, it is formed the same way as the Bubble nebula. Wolf-Rayet stars lose a huge part of their mass in stellar winds, which helps in creating the spectacular view.  The distance from Earth is ~6000 ly and mass of WR 134 is considered as 18 solar masses, which combined with its super high temperature is putting it in the path of becoming a super-nova when it reaches the end of life...

WR 134 is one of the first three stars with unusual emission lines in the spectrum which lead to forming a new star's class - Wolf-Rayet stars.

Total 15h 10 min, in 130x420s, William Optics ZS110, ASI2600MM, Ha and OIII filters, APT, PHD2, PI, PS

[bottletopburly]

Excellent ivo  did you acquire this using APT by any chance 😆
had a google and have to say this is probably the best image I could find of this target, so we’ll done ivo 👍

Edited August 31, 2023 by bottletopburly

[Yoddha]

Thank you very much, Dave!

This time boldly used APT 🤣🤣🤣

[peter shah]

Beautiful work

[Yoddha]

Many thanks, Peter!

[bomberbaz]

I have recently started out in spectroscopy and these are fascinating objects to get data from also WR stars respond particularly well to camera's for obtaining spectra. At mag 8.05 it should be a great candidate. 

As for your image, I struggle for adjectives that give it enough praise, it is stunningly beautiful and would give hubble a run for it's money. 💕it.

[Yoddha]

Many thanks, Steve! 

 

[MarsG76]

On 01/09/2023 at 01:17, Yoddha said:

Hello,

This is my second attempt at this target. The first one was 6 years ago, when it was a much more exotic project than now  Six years later the cameras and the software are much better and give more opportunities to explore the faint edges of the universe! Of course, the filters are of great help... I'm curious where we will be after another 6 years!

Here you can see the previous attempt - https://www.astrobin.com/316580/

The star Wolf-Rayet 134 (the brightest star in the center of the Ring Nebula) is a very hot star with temperature over 63,000 K and luminosity around 400,000 times than the Sun. Its radiation and very powerful winds are the reason to form the ring-shaped nebula in the mix of stellar matter and surrounding gas. Despite it looking like a planetary nebula, it is formed the same way as the Bubble nebula. Wolf-Rayet stars lose a huge part of their mass in stellar winds, which helps in creating the spectacular view.  The distance from Earth is ~6000 ly and mass of WR 134 is considered as 18 solar masses, which combined with its super high temperature is putting it in the path of becoming a super-nova when it reaches the end of life...

WR 134 is one of the first three stars with unusual emission lines in the spectrum which lead to forming a new star's class - Wolf-Rayet stars.

Total 15h 10 min, in 130x420s, William Optics ZS110, ASI2600MM, Ha and OIII filters, APT, PHD2, PI, PS

That is a fantastic image.... to answer your question of where we'll be in 6 years?... I suspect up to APT version 7.2... Full AI integration 😉

 

[Yoddha]

Many thanks, Mariusz!  The AI is getting speed so will not wonder if it reaches the imaging process too...