Full frame at Full resolution
Sitting in a rich field of OIII and Halpha emission nebulae, a remarkable and beautiful, striated, teal coloured,
almost perfectly spherical, bubble, is being blown in the interstellar medium by the intense stellar wind from a
very hot and massive Wolf-Rayet star at its centre. Wolf-Rayet stars have surface temperatures of between 30 000K
and 210 000 K, compared to our Sun, which has a surface temperature of just 5800K!
Takahashi FSQ106EDX4
FLI Proline 16803, CFW-5-7, Robofocus
HaOIIIRGB = 525 555 140 140 160min = 25.3hrs total exposure (bin 1X1)
New Deep-Sky RGB Astronomik filters
-30C chip temp, dark frames and flats (using Aurora Flat Field Panel) applied
Focal length 530mm, FOV = 4deg X 4deg
Image scale 3.5"/pix
Guide Camera: Starlightxpress Lodestar
Comments
Data collected over 5 nights 8, 9, 15, 16 and 18 Jan 2020
Equipment setup:
https://pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/168910433
Some links to equipment used to take this image:
StarlightXpress CCD Cameras and imaging equipment
http://www.sxccd.com/products
Finger Lakes Instrumentation CCD cameras:
http://www.flicamera.com/
Astro Shop (Aus)
http://www.astroshop.com.au/
Astro-Elecronic FS2 scope GOTO controller:
http://www.astro-electronic.de/
Gerd Neumann and Astronomik filters:
http://www.astronomik.com/en/home
http://www.gerdneumann.net/
MSB Software & Astroart 5
http://www.msb-astroart.com/
Catseye Collimation
http://www.catseyecollimation.com/
STAR Atlas:PRO planetarium software:
http://www.staratlaspro.com/