Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Vela (Vel)  ·  Contains:  NGC 2736  ·  Pencil Nebula
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NGC 2736 - The Pencil Nebula (aka Herschel's Ray), Frank Breslawski
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NGC 2736 - The Pencil Nebula (aka Herschel's Ray)

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NGC 2736 - The Pencil Nebula (aka Herschel's Ray), Frank Breslawski
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NGC 2736 - The Pencil Nebula (aka Herschel's Ray)

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* Image Acquisition by Greg Turgeon

* Image Processing by Frank Breslawski

I still had these wonderful raw images of one of the most beautiful objects of the southern sky on my hard disk. Reason enough to continue my expedition to some of these southern objects.  :-) The nebula reminds me very much of the condor of one of my first video games on the NES: Ice Climber! Maybe some of you still remember those little snow people who had to reach the ice mountain with their snow shovels...

Okay, some more facts to this object (from Wikipedia.org): NGC 2736 (also known as the Pencil Nebula) is a small part of the Vela Supernova Remnant, located near the Vela Pulsar in the constellation Vela. The nebula's linear appearance triggered its popular name. It resides about 815 light-years (250 parsecs) away from the Solar System. It is thought to be formed from part of the shock wave of the larger Vela Supernova Remnant. The Pencil Nebula is moving at roughly 644,000 kilometers per hour (400,000 miles per hour).

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NGC 2736 - The Pencil Nebula (aka Herschel's Ray), Frank Breslawski

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