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Imaging telescopes or lenses: Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC
Imaging cameras: Moravian G3-16200EC
Mounts: SkyWatcher NEQ6 PRO
Software: PixInsight Ripley 1.8
Filters: Baaader Ultra-Narrowband H-alpha 3,5nm
Frames:Baaader Ultra-Narrowband H-alpha 3,5nm: 299x600" bin 2x2
Integration: 49.8 hours
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 5.00
Astrometry.net job: 4278795
Resolution: 1905x834
Data source: Backyard
The title is a bit contradictory because it is not about the Big Bang, of course, but ... let's start from the beginning.
In 1997, Peter McCullough, using an experimental camera, recorded in the Ha band a 2-degree long straight line crossing the sky.
Peter McCullough showed the photo to Robert Benjamin at the conference and they were both impressed - “In astronomy, you never see perfectly straight lines in the sky,” said Benjamin
Soon, almost 20 years later;) Peter's discovery attracted the attention of Marta Alves, who decided to observe the object using LOFAR (network of low-frequency radio telescopes).
To help interpret the LOFAR observations, Marta's "colleague" Andrea Bracco searched the GALEX archives and found a 30-degree ultraviolet emission arc crossing the studied line. Of course, it was quite a surprise: “Frankly, I could not believe that such a great structure in the sky was not known yet. I was looking at ultraviolet observations from 15 years ago, "
In 2018, Bracco and Alves invited Benjamin to collaborate on the analysis of the results.
But what is it?
Shockwave / remnant of an ancient and near supernova or other interstellar explosion. The estimated distance from Earth is 600 light years and the age is approximately 100,000 years
Implications:
- 2,681 square degrees; Almost a third of sky
- The explosion may have contributed to the "Local Chimney"
- May have created low density windows to look out of our Galaxy
-- LH=Lockman Hole
-- GS=Groth Strip
Object is larger (in angle) than the previous record holder (Antlia SNR) by a factor of three, and four times larger than Cygnus Loop, Vela SNR,
The information comes from:
https://aas.org/sites/default/files/2020-06/benjamin_aas236.pdf
https://www.uww.edu/news/archive/2020-06-ultraviolet-emission
The photo is a two-panel mosaic made with a Samyang 135mm f2, G3-16200EC (this is my first mosaic) Each panel consists of approximately 150 exposures of 600s in Ha 3.5nm Bin2.
All the pictures shown are minimalistic and do not have great aesthetic value (many artifacts that I have not touched) but I am most proud of it.
Due to the scale and multitude of stars, the arc is practically invisible without removing the stars, and I wasn't really sure of the effect of the efforts until the last minute - this moment and the adrenaline of displaying a photo after StarNet was priceless!
For information:
Field of view ..... 20d 9 '4.5 "x 8d 49' 0.6"
Image center ...... RA: 10 14 10.974 Dec: +77 51 34.76
To my knowledge, this is the second image of this object in the Ha-band apart from the two degrees from 1997. The image shows only about 10 degrees of the 30 that are discovered and visible in ultraviolet.
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