the spaghetti nebula

[moonshinegnomie]

i used a telescope.live remote scope in spain for the data and then processed it in pixinsight (the software i use for astro work) and photoshop

6 hours of data using hydrogen,sulfur and oxygen to bring out different details in the nebula and then i combined the 3 sets of data into whats called the SHO pallet which is what the hubble uses. basically sulfur gets mapped to red,hydrogen to green and oxygen to blue

the actual nebula is about 3000 light years away. it was formed when a masive star went supernova about 40,000 years ago. the nebula is lit from the remnants of the star that exploded,which is now a neutron star about the mass of teh sun but only about 10 miles in diameter.

[umroman]

1. Beautiful!

Thank you!

[enough]

2. Awesome

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Thanks for sharing this great image!

You do wonderful work. I always appreciate what you post.

[dweller]

4. 🙏

Ramen


✌🏻

[moonshinegnomie]

10. im an ordained FSM minister

[Bundbuster]

5. Blowing my mind

and thank you for doing so.

[byronius]

6. Gorgeous.

[brer cat]

7. I don't understand how you did this,

but it is a totally awesome pix. Thanks for sharing, moonshine.

[BigOleDummy]

8. Magnificent!

What size was the scope?

[moonshinegnomie]

9. this is with a Takahashi FSQ-106ED

its a 106mm scope with a focal length of 382mm at f3.6
the actual scope is located in spain but telescope.live lets me either download the raw data from an object if they already shot it or else i can pick the target,individual exposure length,number of exposures ,filters etc and then use that data instead.

The data comes in a set of files in FIT format which is a standard astrophotography format. I then stack and process them however i choose

[BigOleDummy]

11. Thank you

My brother in law is a astrophotographer and I want to show him this when I see him next. I'm sure he'd want to know about thw scope etc. Thank you again for answering.

[4dog]

12. So how big is this cluster of bubbles?

In fractional degrees/seconds, radians, or light years, as convenient.

[ShazzieB]

14. Cluster of bubbles!

I had the exact same reaction, because that's exactly what it looks like to me.

It's a truly stunning photo.

[moonshinegnomie]

13. about 160 light years across

or roughly 3 degrees in size from earth