Spaghetti Nebula - Simeis 147 - Sharpless 2-240 (Matt)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Taurus (Tau) · Contains: 118 Tau · 12.96 · 125 Tau · 162 Laurentia · 26 Aur · LBN 822 · LBN 826 · LBN 827 · PK178-02.1 · PK181+00.1 · Sh2-240 · Sh2-242 · The star 118Tau · The star 125Tau · The star 26Aur

Spaghetti Nebula - Simeis 147 - Sharpless 2-240

This is the faintest object I have tried to image, by far.

I "cheated" a bit and ended up paying for it, but I still think a supernova remnant looks cool. After having some success blending RGB stars in with L-Enhance data in my California Nebula image, I thought I might try the same here. My next thought was that I could try and use my Samyang 135mm at f2 and pile on the hours over two nights, knowing that I could ignore any optical aberrations as I'd be replacing the stars. Well my lens STINKS at f2, and I didn't really realize it until I was deep into the imaging session (APT previews didn't look as bad as a stretched sub in APP). I ended up needing to crop at least half of the image, which was unfortunate because I framed the shot up to show a few DSOs (Tadpole Nebula, M36, and M37 in the corners... oh well).

I'll keep working on my nebula editing. This was definitely more challenging than previous "bright" emission nebulae.

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RA (center)	05h40m17s.32
RA (top/left)	05h27m03s.69
RA (top/right)	05h27m41s.50
RA (bottom/right)	05h52m50s.69
RA (bottom/left)	05h53m35s.51

Dec (center)	+27°42′51″.9
Dec (top/left)	+30°28′39″.6
Dec (top/right)	+24°54′10″.7
Dec (bottom/right)	+24°53′46″.3
Dec (bottom/left)	+30°27′46″.3

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