Hello Friends,
this time back to DeepSky. I was looking for an other unusual and small object which I could image in only one night (Actually no darkness, some clouds and full Moon - see image below). So to say worst conditions possible.
So I have chosen a typical
@Gary Imm object (tribute to Garry here! He has probably the first image of any approaching alien ship). WR-124 and M1-67
I have only found four dedicated images on AB from:
@Gary Imm ,
@jerryyyyy ,
@papilain and
@Carles Zerbst But all images are at a much smaller scale and detail level. So lets give it a try!
WR-124 is an absolute fascinating stellar object. It is a dying star short before getting a super novae. It is surrounded by M1-67 which is created by the expelled matter. It is one of the fastest moving stars in the Galaxy with approx. 200km/s. The matter of M1-67 is so fast, that even on images with a decade in between differences can be identified.
For more details have a look here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WR_124This time I use a lot of saturation (no! I am not ill
) since the M1-67 is extremely bright and light red. At least other images (Webb, Hubble) show this strong color too. So I was generous with color.
I am quite surprised what was possible under these terrible conditions in 2.25 hours and please consider this when watching. I hope you enjoy it too.
Rüdiger
Update 07.07.2023: Could collect more data on 06.07.2023. Now much more details are visible in M1-67. Updated also the crop image.
Smoking gun:
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