NGC 1514 PLANETARY NEBULA

[CELESCOPE]

Something different from me lol , only short subs again , much the same as yesterday really , all set up , and over came that horrible milky stuff, just managed 15 subs at 40 secs , this one is fairly faint , but has the attraction of some lovely bright stars , and one smack in the centre of the neb, Taken with big bertha LXD75 10 INCH at F4 using teh HA filter

Rog

A planetary nebula lying near a boundary on Taurus is NGC1514. You will be able to find out the nebula to trace about 8 degrees northeast from the Pleiades. The nebula has a diameter of about 2 arc minutes, high-powered view of telescopes shows you a bright central star and very dimmed nebulosity spread out on the outskirts. The dimmed gaseous matter exposes in bluish color, the matter is emitting light from ionized oxygen atoms.

The central star still looks bright; it's considered that the planetary nebula just starts to release gas, fairly newly nebula formed from a dead star. The gaseous region will spread out increasingly within several ten thousand years, and evolve into a splendid planetary nebula like the Ring Nebula (M57) or Dumb

A BIGGER VERSION

[geppetto]

That looks beautiful with the central star Rog

Nice one

[Chubster]

Another cracker

How do you get the star spikes?? Is it a result of the photography

[CELESCOPE]

can put them in with cotton over the end of the scope tube , or with software , this was done with software. dont always put them in but thought it would add to this image ,

cheers

Rog

[Chubster]

:nono:

can put them in with cotton over the end of the scope tube

think your pulling my leg

[CELESCOPE]

no seriously , two bits of fine cotton tape across the tube end in a cross

try it

Rog

[GazOC]

Cracker Rog, I had a peek at that on Thurday with my Dob.

Chubs, he's not kidding.

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Daft question and not meant to be annoying, but, I don't know how to say this, it's BLUE! With a Ha filter?

Its a very good image Rog. No two ways about it, very well done, and with the SN as well. Glad you're using it and posting the results for us to check out.

Just got to have a bash at this one when I get back(two day work trip tomorrow and its tipping with rain now) so whats the deal? I'm guessing Ha luminance + RGB?

Captain Chaos

[GazOC]

no seriously , two bits of fine cotton tape across the tube end in a cross

try it

Rog

Or buy a Newt!

[SteelRat]

Nice one Rog 8)

[CELESCOPE]

Aha CC no mate , i checked it out, for colour and added the colour myself thats all .

Rog

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Righto, I'd better paint that snowball then. Thanks Rog.

Captain Chaos

[moondog]

Rog, cracking image and super spikes - I'll get the cotton reel out !

8)

MD

[Greg]

There's me thinking about jacking the imaging in and concentrating on visual...Then I see something like this.........

Well done mate.

[Kain]

Nice one Rog...

Man I wish I could afford to do Imaging!

Kain

[CELESCOPE]

Go for it Kain , you dont have to spend mega bucks to start imaging, i just started with the modded web cams ,and got some very nice images ,

Rog

[Andrew*]

Beautiful, Rog. Love the spikes, and the blurb too.

Andrew

[russ]

hmmm that's a bit special Rog :sunny: :sunny: :sunny: :sunny: :sunny:

Russ

[lunator]

Rog

excellent image.

I will have to track this down.

Cheers

Ian