Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  NGC 6883
The region of variable Wolf-Rayet star WR134 in Cygnus in HOO narrowband, Michele Vonci
The region of variable Wolf-Rayet star WR134 in Cygnus in HOO narrowband
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The region of variable Wolf-Rayet star WR134 in Cygnus in HOO narrowband

The region of variable Wolf-Rayet star WR134 in Cygnus in HOO narrowband, Michele Vonci
The region of variable Wolf-Rayet star WR134 in Cygnus in HOO narrowband
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The region of variable Wolf-Rayet star WR134 in Cygnus in HOO narrowband

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It's been a while since I last posted something. I made use of the past couple of clear nights - well, you can hardly call night that brief darkness around midnight that we have in the North West of the UK this time of the year - to image the region of the variable Wolf-Rayet 134 star in Cygnus. WR134 is surrounded by a faint bubble nebula blown by intense radiation and fast wind from the star. The blue arc made of ionised oxygen is the front of the expanding shockwave created by the central WR134...the rest of the bubble is too faint to be imaged with my equipment...quite disappointing because I've ventured into 10 and even 15 minutes of guided exposure to get as much data as possible but the final quality is quite rubbish. Possibly I'm reaching the limits allowed by the poor sky I have from my backyard and maybe a narrower passband for the H-a and Oiii filters might help to increase the contrast.

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Description: Added seven more hours of O-III data and four more hours of H-a. Completely reprocessed with starless layer + stars for the individual O and H channels.

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The region of variable Wolf-Rayet star WR134 in Cygnus in HOO narrowband, Michele Vonci