Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Fornax (For)  ·  Contains:  NGC 1360

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NGC 1360 – The Robins Egg Nebula, Terry Robison
NGC 1360 – The Robins Egg Nebula
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NGC 1360 – The Robins Egg Nebula

Image of the day 02/06/2019

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NGC 1360 – The Robins Egg Nebula, Terry Robison
NGC 1360 – The Robins Egg Nebula
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NGC 1360 – The Robins Egg Nebula

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Description

This is an example of a typical evolved planetary nebula. In other words, aging. It lacks the obvious shell morphology often seen in a younger versions of planetary nebula. This large beautiful planetary nebula can be found in the constellation Fornax. Its common name, “The Robin’s Egg Nebula” describes the object perfectly.

Reddish jet like glows located along the longer axis are believed to have been ejected from the original star before its final collapse. In time, entropy will cause everything to fade. Eventually, only the white dwarf in the centre will remain. It will take several billion years to finally cool off.

I really wanted to show as many details and features that I could with this data set. Accentuating depth and contrast areas within this very distinctive object.

The image was constructed using five filters, Luminance, Red, Green, Blue, and Hydrogen-Alpha (Ha). The total imaging time is 65.75 hours.

Exposure Details:

Lum 75X900

Red 35X450

Green 36X450

Blue 49X450

Ha 32X1800

Total time 65.75 hours

Instruments Used:

10 Inch RCOS fl 9.1

Astro Physics AP-900 Mount

SBIG STL 11000m

FLI Filter Wheel

Astrodon Lum, Red, Green, Blue Filters

Baader Planetarium H-alpha 7nm Narrowband-Filter

Software Used

CCDStack (calibration, alignment, data rejection, stacking)

Photoshop CS 6 (Image processing)

Thanks for looking

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