The Eskimo Nebula (Rick Veregin)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Gemini (Gem) · Contains: Eskimo Nebula · NGC 2392

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The Eskimo Nebula

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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The Eskimo Nebula

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

The Eskimo Nebula, located about 4000 light-years away, started forming about 10 000 years ago when the central star began blasting out an intense high-speed wind, forming the outer shell. This is the ultimate fate of a star like our own sun. A few thousand years ago, this dying sun blew away its outer layers, forming this inner complex network of shells. This inner portion, the Eskimo's face, is reaching temperatures of 2 million degrees Celsius, an X-ray source, and much hotter than the surrounding ejected material that glows at a balmy 14,000°C.

As for my own image, only one of these nights had even average seeing, and sitting right under the jet stream, winds were bad. So not sure I should call this lucky imaging, but certainly it was no time to try non-lucky imaging.

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RA (center)	07h29m10s.968
RA (top/left)	07h29m47s.582
RA (top/right)	07h28m33s.247
RA (bottom/right)	07h28m34s.359
RA (bottom/left)	07h29m48s.641

Dec (center)	+20°54′42″.50
Dec (top/left)	+21°00′37″.60
Dec (top/right)	+21°00′14″.78
Dec (bottom/right)	+20°48′44″.95
Dec (bottom/left)	+20°49′08″.70

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