Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  Crab nebula  ·  HD245010  ·  LBN 833  ·  M 1  ·  NGC 1952  ·  Sh2-244
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The Crab Nebula (M1) in SHO

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The Crab Nebula (M1) in SHO

Revision title: Full Reprocess

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This is my first try at M1. I chose to do narrowband, but SHO Hubble palette has very psychedelic colors! I am trying different combinations to play with the color palette, but I like the SHO.

The Crab Nebula (M1, NGC 1952, Taurus A) is a supernova remnant in the constellation of Taurus. Corresponding to a bright supernova recorded by Chinese astronomers in 1054, the nebula was observed later by English astronomer John Bevis in 1731. The nebula was the first astronomical object identified with a historical supernova explosion.

At an apparent magnitude of 8.4, comparable to that of Saturn's moon Titan, it is not visible to the naked eye but can be made out using binoculars under favorable conditions. The nebula lies in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way galaxy, at a distance of about 2.0 kiloparsecs (6,500 ly) from Earth. It has a diameter of 3.4 parsecs (11 ly), corresponding to an apparent diameter of some 7 arcminutes, and is expanding at a rate of about 1,500 kilometres per second (930 mi/s), or 0.5% of the speed of light.

At the center of the nebula lies the Crab Pulsar, a neutron star 28–30 kilometres (17–19 mi) across with a spin rate of 30.2 times per second, which emits pulses of radiation from gamma rays to radio waves. At X-ray and gamma ray energies above 30 keV, the Crab Nebula is generally the brightest persistent source in the sky, with measured flux extending to above 10 TeV.

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Title: Full Reprocess

Description: This image used a complete different image processing flow that used BlueXterminator and NoiseXterminator

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The Crab Nebula (M1) in SHO, Cfosterstars