Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Perseus (Per)  ·  Contains:  NGC 1579
Northern Trifid - NGC 1579 in Perseus, Steve Milne
Northern Trifid - NGC 1579 in Perseus
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Northern Trifid - NGC 1579 in Perseus

Northern Trifid - NGC 1579 in Perseus, Steve Milne
Northern Trifid - NGC 1579 in Perseus
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Northern Trifid - NGC 1579 in Perseus

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Description

From APOD: "Colorful NGC 1579 resembles the better known Trifid Nebula, but lies much farther north in planet Earth's sky, in the heroic constellation Perseus. About 2,100 light-years away and 3 light-years across, NGC 1579 is, like the Trifid, a study in contrasting blue and red colors, with dark dust lanes prominent in the nebula's central regions. In both, dust reflects starlight to produce beautiful blue reflection nebulae. But unlike the Trifid, in NGC 1579 the reddish glow is not emission from clouds of glowing hydrogen gas excited by ultraviolet light from a nearby hot star. Instead, the dust in NGC 1579 drastically diminishes, reddens, and scatters the light from an embedded, extremely young, massive star, itself a strong emitter of the characteristic red hydrogen alpha light."

NGC 1579 was photographed between 23 October 2019 and 1 January 2020 from a rig in Spain that is privately owned and remotely operated by Barry Wilson and me.

Capture details are as follows:

Telescope: TEC 140

Camera: QSI 690

Filters: Astrodon

Mount: 10 Micron GM2000HPS

Ha: 30 x 1200s

Lum: 36 x 600s

Red: 30 x 300s

Green 30 x 300s

Blue: 30 x 300s

A total of 23 hours and 30 minutes exposure.

Data: Steve Milne & Barry Wilson

Processing: Steve Milne

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Northern Trifid - NGC 1579 in Perseus, Steve Milne