RCW 29: Made by a Hypervelocity StarOTA: CDK24
Camera: Moravian 61000 pro
Observatory: Heaven's Mirror
Date of Capture: Apr 24
Date of Processing: Apr 24
Exposures Used:
R: 20 x 180 sec
G: 24 x "
B: 19 x "
H: 20 x 1200 sec
O: 23 x "
Total Exposure time: 17.5 hours
Image Width: 30'20"
Processing Tools:
1. Commercial: PixInsight, Topaz, Radiant Photo, Aurora HDR
2. Pixinsight Addons: NoiseXTerminator, BlurXTerminator, StarXTerminator
3. My Scripts: NB_Assistant, AC_Restar, Subframe Weighting Tool (Excel w/ J. Hunt), ColorTweaker
Target Description:
These nebula strands consist predominantly of a supernova's remains: the Puppis A Supernova. The supernova explosion is estimated to have occurred about 3700 years ago. (That is when "Basal Eurasians" migrated to Europe. These were non-neanderthals, considered the direct ancestors of modern Europeans/Asians.)=MsoNoSpacing
Apparently, the source star exploded asymmetrically, accelerating the debris cloud in one direction and the star in the opposite direction. The remnant star is now a very dense neutron star racing through space at an incredible 3 Million MPH. This star will leave our galaxy in about 1 Million years! Estimates suggest that 1 star in 100 million has such is hypervelocity (Wikipedia). How would you like to see this neutron star go racing by your solar system? Probably somebody somewhere will experience just that. The remnant star lies roughly 15" off the right edge of the image, about where indicated by the yellow arrow.
Additional interesting facts are at
https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/puppis/.
Processing Description:
This image is rendered in realistic colors, consisting of combined RGB, Ha, and OIII. The stars are RGB, photometrically calibrated.
Target Statistics:
Distance: 7200 ly
Pixel Span at Target: 1.29E+10 km
Alex Woronow 
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