Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Vela (Vel)

Image of the day 02/21/2019

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
Gum15 in Vela: A close-up view, Eduardo Oliveira
Gum15 in Vela: A close-up view
Powered byPixInsight

Gum15 in Vela: A close-up view

Image of the day 02/21/2019

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
Gum15 in Vela: A close-up view, Eduardo Oliveira
Gum15 in Vela: A close-up view
Powered byPixInsight

Gum15 in Vela: A close-up view

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

This interesting HII region was introduced to myself by my friend Luiz Duczmal, who recently imaged it with a wider field (https://www.astrobin.com/full/387336/0/). GUM15, in the constellation of Vela is an active HII region much less known than its more famous sibling, the Trifid Nebula. The hydrogen gas is ionized probably by the multiple star HD74804, a BIII/5 giant that appears off-center in the image together with its well resolved 3 components at lower left of the star (SIMBAD).

The post-processing of the image after calibration and registration was skillfully done by my friend Roberto Colombari, whose collaboration in this work I thank very much.

Comments

Revisions

    Gum15 in Vela: A close-up view, Eduardo Oliveira
    Original
  • Final
    Gum15 in Vela: A close-up view, Eduardo Oliveira
    D

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

Gum15 in Vela: A close-up view, Eduardo Oliveira