Bipolar Nebula with NGC 6164 and NGC 6165 (Jan Scheers)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Norma (Nor) · Contains: NGC 6164 · NGC 6165 · PK336-00.1

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Bipolar Nebula with NGC 6164 and NGC 6165

Link to TIFF/FITS: http://www.nachthemel.be/ngc6165.html

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Bipolar Nebula with NGC 6164 and NGC 6165

Link to TIFF/FITS: http://www.nachthemel.be/ngc6165.html

This emission nebula, consisting of a.o. NGC 6164 & NGC 6165, is a rectangular, bipolar cloud with rounded corners and a diagonal bar producing an inverted S-shaped appearance.
It lies about 4,200 light-years away in the constellation Norma, on the border of Ara.
The nebula measures about 4.2 light-years across, and contains gases ejected by the O-type star HD 148937 at its heart. This star is 40 times more massive than the Sun, and at about three to four million years of age, is past the middle of its life span. Stars this massive usually live to be only about six million years old, so HD 148397 is aging fast. It will likely end its life in a violent supernova explosion.

Image was acquired with the Planewave CDK24 telescope and FLI PL09000 CCD-camera from Telescope Live in El Sauce Observatory, Chile.

Total integration time: 480 minutes
SHO 16 subs of 600s with each filter.
FOV 32' x 32' (0.68"/px)

Processing with AstroPixelProcessor and Photoshop CC with AstroPanel Pro, Astronomy Tools, Topaz Sharpen AI & Franzis Denoise Projects 3 plug-ins.

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RA (center)	16h33m53s.142
RA (top/left)	16h35m22s.698
RA (top/right)	16h32m21s.534
RA (bottom/right)	16h32m22s.640
RA (bottom/left)	16h35m25s.565

Dec (center)	-48°07′19″.16
Dec (top/left)	-47°52′23″.13
Dec (top/right)	-47°52′43″.87
Dec (bottom/right)	-48°22′10″.38
Dec (bottom/left)	-48°21′49″.60

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