NGC 2736, Pencil Nebula/Herschel's Ray (morrienz)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Vela (Vel) · Contains: NGC 2736 · Pencil Nebula

NGC 2736, Pencil Nebula/Herschel's Ray, morrienz

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NGC 2736, Pencil Nebula/Herschel's Ray

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NGC 2736, Pencil Nebula/Herschel's Ray

This southern sky nebula in Vela is part of the vast Vela Supernova Remnant, and was probably generated by the energetic and fast moving shock wave of the VSR, which is estimated to be perhaps 11,000 years old. The pencil nebula is still moving outwards from the centre of the expanding VSR at about 600,00 km/hr. It is about 800 light-years away from us. Discovered in 1835 by John Herschel in South Africa, and imaged here over three nights from our backyard under our darkish (Bortle 2/3) rural sky in New Zealand, with my 10 inch (250/1450mm) Corrected Dall Kirkham f/5.8 Astrograph, on a 10Micron mount, using a dual band Ha/Oiii narrow band filter. Some passing small clouds limited my usable exposure time each night, and there was a fairly bright moon up on all the nights.

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