After starting this project we call NHZ project (New horizon project) about 2 months ago, our team composed of astrophotographers from all over the world is happy to present it‘s first image of a previously unknown nebula in the constellation of Centaurus, just next to alpha Centauri A!
In our search for new objects, Steeve came across something extremely promising in the mid of June - it seemed as if we discovered some sort of filamentary structure
To confirm the structure Logan did a follow-up image and we were able to indeed confirm the nature of the structure.
However we quickly realized that the structure is too big for these small FOV’s, so Mauricio went ahead and captured the object with his much bigger FOV. If you want to have a look at his edit, please head over to
@Mauricio Christiano de Souza (
https://www.astrobin.com/bdjnfv/)
Finally being able to frame the whole structure Mauricio committed plenty of nights on this target, ending up with 106h28m of integration time - big thanks to him! Also a big thank you to William and Steeve for both edits you see as version A and B respectively.
On a side note, in our image you can spot lots of newly discovered PN’s such as the Dr15 (upper left bubble), and many other smaller PN’s - feel free to zoom in for details.
As you might have seen, Bray Falls and Chester Hall-Fernandez also posted an image of this region a few weeks ago - funnily enough ours and their group discovered the same structure within an interval of only a few days.
Only difference is that we worked with a much tighter FOV, enabling us to get some pretty cool details on this new structure.
As Bray and Chester wrote in their post, what you see on the image is a huge nebula, about 3 degrees in extension that consists of a filamentary structure present in Oiii. It is suspected to be a supernova remnant, though this remains hard to say for certain as it‘s in a region where plenty of SNR are present. In our own research however we couldn’t attribute the filament structure to any other SNR.
Below you'll find a blend of the Oiii data Mauricio gathered and a widefield HaLRGB shot from Nicolas
@Nicolas Adriano with his Samyang 135mm giving you a feeling for how big the structure is.
Also thanks to him for this amazing widefield shot!
A huge thank you to everyone who took part in this amazing picture/discovery!
@Steeve Body@Mauricio Christiano de Souza@William Ostling@Logan Carpenter@Nicolas AdrianoWe hope that you like our image!
- Text written by
@Tim Schaeffer , co-ordinator of the group
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