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Tulip Garden HOO Askar 400, Brandon Tackett
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Tulip Garden HOO Askar 400

Tulip Garden HOO Askar 400, Brandon Tackett
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Tulip Garden HOO Askar 400

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HOO version from my August Capture. 

More more data that was sub optimal that I collected from late summer. I really found area around Sh2-101 to be fascinating when I complete a RASA8 image a few years ago and what to see if from a wider field of view with the Askar 280 focal length. The O3 data was rough at best, but I finally made the effort to try to salvage the capture. Another lower quartile image for me, but still always a joy to see the wonders of backyard sky. 

I have a special fondness for Tulip Nebula as the town I grew up in held a Dutch Tulip Festival each year. The kidney shape structure to the left of the tulip always fascinates me as well as the larger evacuated structure in the lower middle of the image. 

Sh2-101 referred as tulip nebula is a hydrogen emission nebula located 6,000 light years from earth in the constellation of Cygnus. The nebula measures 28 x 16 light years. Cygnus X-1 is an x-ray source that was eventually discovered to be the first black hole scientist found. It was a large supper giant star 40 masses of the son that collapse directly into a black hole that measures approximately 45 km in diameter. The black whole is in a binary star system with the bright star in the picture (see arrow). The stars are roughing 15-20 million miles part and orbit each other every 5.8 days. The black hole pulls stellar material from its binary partner that accumulates in its accretion disc. As the material increases in energy some of it escapes in jets perpendicular to the accretion disc. These jets are the x-rays that we first observed and created the blue bow shock pattern seen in the image.

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