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Bubblegum Nebula - GUM 16 - Vela SNR - HOO, klaussius
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Bubblegum Nebula - GUM 16 - Vela SNR - HOO

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Bubblegum Nebula - GUM 16 - Vela SNR - HOO

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The Vela Supernova remnant (GUM 16) in GUM 12, an HII region 450 parsecs away, is a greatly expanded supernova remnant found in the constellation Vela. The object is huge, spanning 8 whole degrees. This of course covers only a tiny portion of it.

I ended up calling it the Bubblegum Nebula because it totally looks like "bubblegum remnant". It's certainly not its popular name.

This image is my deepest image yet, sporting a little more than 13 hours of total exposure time. Still, I had to apply some heavy noise reduction, the remnant is quite dim, but rich in structure and really awesome to look at.

My aim was 20 hours, but it doesn't look like I will be able to reach my goal this season.

I'm still improving on my processing here, namely noise reduction and local normalization, because one of my sessions ended up quite misaligned and it shows on the final stack. As I improve on it I will upload better revisions.

The Ha B&W version is worth a look as well.

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    Bubblegum Nebula - GUM 16 - Vela SNR - HOO, klaussius
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Description: H-alpha channel only, an interesting image on its own right

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Bubblegum Nebula - GUM 16 - Vela SNR - HOO, klaussius