{"id":2169,"date":"2016-12-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2018-01-15T10:05:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T10:05:08","slug":"november-2016","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.popastro.com\/deepsky\/november-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"November 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

This month, five deep sky observers (one of them new to the section) sent in a total of 42 images.\u00a0 Four of these section members live in Scotland, which speaks volumes about the weather conditions prevailing in the rest of the UK lately.<\/p>\n

Alan Clitherow,<\/strong> SPA planetary section director, had clear skies in early November at his observing location in Fife. Here are two versions of emission nebula NGC 7380, (also known as the Wizard nebula and number 142 in the Sharpless catalogue – Sh2-142), which is in the constellation of Cepheus.\u00a0 It is a star forming region, spanning about 100 light years and is 7000 light years from the Earth.\u00a0 The monochrome image was taken through a H alpha filter.\u00a0 The colour image was made by combining data from H alpha and OIII filter exposures.<\/p>\n

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NGC 7380 (mono)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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NGC 7380<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Alan also imaged a second emission nebula, Sh2-199 aka the Soul nebula, in Cassiopeia.\u00a0 The nebula is another star forming region;\u00a0 several small open clusters are embedded within it.\u00a0 Cavities are being created by radiation and stellar winds from massive new stars, compressing gas and dust and triggering yet more star formation.\u00a0 The monochrome version was taken using the combined data from SII, H alpha and OIII filters.<\/p>\n

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IC 1848<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In colour is the same image but with the three filtered images mapped to red, green and blue (the “Hubble palette”).\u00a0 Also is a H alpha true colour version.\u00a0 Alan used a MN 190P f5 Maksutov Newtonian telescope, cooled, astro modified Canon 600 DSLR and narrow band filters as mentioned above.<\/p>\n

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IC 1848<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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IC 1848<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Steve Cooke,<\/strong> submitting images to this section for the first time, uses a Skywatcher 200P Newtonian telescope and modified Canon 100D DSLR camera from his location in Devon.\u00a0 Here are M11, the “wild duck” open cluster in the constellation of Scutum;\u00a0 M57 the “ring” planetary nebula in Lyra; \u00a0 M42 the famous region of nebulosity in Orion, and M33, the Pinwheel spiral galaxy in Triangulum.<\/p>\n

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M11<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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M57<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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M42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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M33<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Steve also imaged M27, the Dumbbell Planetary nebula in Vulpecula.\u00a0 This quite bright (apparent magnitude 7.5) object is 8 x 7 arcminutes in angular size and can be seen with binoculars.\u00a0 It is about 1300 light years from the Earth and is of the order of a light year across.\u00a0 Estimates of its age vary from 10,000 to 14,600 years.\u00a0 The star at the centre is thought to be over 1\/20th\u00a0 the diameter of the sun, with over half the sun’s mass, which would make it the largest known white dwarf.\u00a0 Planetary nebulae are quite short lived in astronomical terms, just tens of thousands of years;\u00a0 and for stars like our sun, the last stage of their long lives.<\/p>\n

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M27<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The next three contributors all took advantage of clear sky conditions over Scotland around the latter part of November to produce a bumper crop of deep sky images.<\/p>\n

Mark Beveridge,<\/strong> observing from Aberdeen with an OMC 140mm f14.3 Maksutov Cassegrain telescope with a SXR-H814 camera plus red, green and blue filters, sent in images of globular clusters M15 in Pegasus and M71in Sagitta.<\/p>\n

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M15<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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M71<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mark’s next four images are all galaxies.\u00a0 Here are NGC 157 then NGC 1055 both in Cetus, M74 in Pisces and NGC 891 in Andromeda.<\/p>\n

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NGC 157<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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NGC 1055<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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M74<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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NGC 891<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Next are four planetary nebulae imaged by Mark:\u00a0 NGC 246 the Skull in Cetus, NGC 7008 (the Foetus) in Cygnus, NGC 6905 (the Blue flash) in Delphinus and NGC 7094 in Pegasus.<\/p>\n

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NGC 246<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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NGC 7008<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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NGC 6905<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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NGC 7904<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mark imaged three more planetary nebula:\u00a0 NGC 2392 (the Eskimo) in Gemini, (and the same image resized and cropped), then NGC 7048 in Cygnus and the Helix nebula, NGC 7293 in Aquarius.<\/p>\n

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NGC 2392<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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NGC 2392 (cropped)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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NGC 7048<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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NGC 7293<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Mark’s next four images are:\u00a0 M56, a globular cluster in Lyra, NGC 1579, an emission nebula in Perseus also known as the Triffid of the North, IC 434 in Orion (the Horsehead nebula) and galaxy NGC 470 in Pisces.<\/p>\n

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M56<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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NGC 1579<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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IC 434<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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NGC 470<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Mark’s final four images are all of galaxies:\u00a0\u00a0 NGC 7606 in the constellation of Aquarius, NGC 864 in Cetus, NGC 925 in Triangulum and NGC 7814 in Pegasus.\u00a0 This last edge on galaxy is similar in appearance to M104, and is sometimes called the Little Sombrero for that reason.\u00a0 The starfield beyond it is noted for many faint, distant galaxies, reminiscent of the Hubble Deep Field image.<\/p>\n

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NGC 7606<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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NGC 864<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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NGC 925<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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NGC 7814<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Steve Norrie, <\/strong>observing from Fife, sent in eleven images captured via a 125mm f7.5 APO refractor and an Atik 920 EX colour camera.\u00a0 First are NGC 7635, the Bubble emission nebula in the constellation of Cassiopeia, IC 5070, the Pelican”emission nebula in Cygnus, M33 spiral galaxy in Triangulum and M42 emission nebula in Orion.<\/p>\n

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NGC 7635<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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IC 5070<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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M33<\/p>\n

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M42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Steve also imaged face on spiral galaxy M74, planetary nebula NGC 6891 in Delphinus, part of the Veil supernova remnant in Cygnus (NGC 6992) and M45, the Pleiades open cluster in Taurus.<\/p>\n

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M74<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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NGC 6891<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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NGC 6992<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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M45<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here are Steve’s final three images:\u00a0 first,M76, the Little Dumbbell planetary nebula in the constellation of Perseus.<\/p>\n

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M76<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NGC 2244 is the Rosette emission nebula and associated open cluster in Monoceros.<\/p>\n

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NGC 2244<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here is NGC 2244, with a different post capture enhancement.<\/p>\n

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NGC 2244<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This object is also known as Caldwell 50 and it contains several young hot O type stars, generating copious amounts of radiation and stellar wind.\u00a0 In fact the open cluster is thought to be less than five million years old.\u00a0 Its brightest stars are massive, of the order of 50 times the mass of the sun, and are about 400,000 times more luminous.<\/p>\n

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Dave Hancox<\/strong> sent in three images taken from Dalmellington in Scotland. M31 is the well known spiral galaxy in the constellation of Andromeda, then the Sword handle double cluster in Perseus;\u00a0 NGC 869 and NGC 884.\u00a0 Dave’s third image is of\u00a0 NGC 7635, the Bubble emission nebula (together with open cluster M52), in Cassiopeia.\u00a0 Dave used an Ascension 102mm refractor and a QHY8L camera.<\/p>\n

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M31<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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NGC 869, NGC 884<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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NGC 7635, also M52<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Sword Handle double cluster\u00a0 is a naked eye object between Perseus and Andromeda and is a fine sight viewed with binoculars or a small telescope.\u00a0 Both open clusters are around 7,500 light years from the Earth and around the same age, 13 million years old.\u00a0 There are over 300 blue – white supergiant stars in each, and the double cluster is number 14 in the Caldwell catalogue of deep sky objects.<\/p>\n

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Dave Finnigan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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