NGC1333 Reflection Nebula in Perseus (Terry Hancock)

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NGC1333 Reflection Nebula in Perseus

Photographed over 3 nights from my home at the Grand Mesa Observatory in Western Colorado using the QHY367C One Shot Color CMOS camera and the Walter Holloway TAK130-FSQ for a total integration time of 7.3 hours.

At the edge of the Perseus molecular cloud, lies the reflection nebula NGC 1333. The nebula, with its characteristic blue color, appears in the center of the image surrounded by dark dust clouds. Containing hundreds of new stars that are less than a million years old, and lying at a distance of less than 1,000 light years away, NGC 1333 is of the nearest star forming regions.

About 36 Herbig-Haro objects (small patches of nebulosity associated with newly born stars) are contained within NGC 1333 along with a number of brown dwarfs (substellar objects that are larger than planets, but not massive enough to initiate the nuclear reactions necessary to become stars). A number of faint galaxies and additional nebulae are also captured within the frame.

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Terry Hancock downunderobservatory.com

Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Whitewater, Colorado

Dates: Sep 25, Dec 19 2017, Jan 7 2018

110 x 240 sec

Camera: QHY367C @-20C

Gain 2850, Offset 76 with Dark Frames no Flat.

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-130

EQ Mount: Paramount ME

Image: Acquisition software Maxim DL5

PRE Processing in Deep Sky Stacker

Post Processing with Pixinsight and Photoshop

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