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January 19-20, 2013

Rosette Nebula Narrowband Hubble Palette (SII-Ha-OIII)

Backyard - Plano, TX

This is my first Narrowband image with my new mono camera.

The Rosette Nebula (also known as Caldwell 49) is a large, circular H II region located near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Monoceros region of the Milky Way Galaxy. The open cluster NGC 2244 (Caldwell 50) is closely associated with the nebulosity, the stars of the cluster having been formed from the nebula's matter.

The cluster and nebula lie at a distance of some 5,200 light-years from Earth and measure roughly 130 light years in diameter. The radiation from the young stars excite the atoms in the nebula, causing them to emit radiation themselves producing the emission nebula we see. The mass of the nebula is estimated to be around 10,000 solar masses. It is believed that stellar winds from a group of O and B stars are exerting pressure on interstellar clouds to cause compression, followed by star formation in the nebula. This star formation is currently still ongoing.

AstroTech 111ED Triplet Apocromatic Refractor
Williams .8 Reducer/Flattener
SBIG STF-8300M CCD camera
Astro Tech 72 ED guidescope
Starlight Xpress Lodestar Guider
Astro Physics Mach 1 GTO mount

Filters:
Sulfur II 1x1 - 5 exp at 30 min each
Hydrogen Alpha 1x1 - 25 exp at 20 minutes each
O III 1x1 - 7 exp at 10 min each

Ha layer used as luminance
Previous RGB version used for stars

Guided with PHD
Captured and Stacked in Nebulosity
Processed in Photoshop full exif


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