~ Pretty Flower Shape Nebula ~
Taken by Noeleen Lowndes on January 12, 2016 @
Leyburn QLD Australia
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Date Taken: 2016:01:20 18:45:13
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Our star has been very quite lately so I’ve turned my attention to some of the other stars in our galaxy :-)
The pretty flower shape Rosette Nebula (NGC 2237) is in the constellation of Monoceros (The Unicorn) and is a huge cloud of gas and dust that’s surrounds the open star cluster (NGC2244) it’s about 100 light years in diameter and lies approximant 5000 light years away from us here on Earth…Wow, now that must cause some really serious Spaceweather in the area!
My images were taken with a Meade 80mm refractor telescope piggybacked on a Meade 10inch LX200 telescope using a Canon 70D camera. Exposures were 10x10 minute lights and 5x10 darks at ISO 1000, stacked in DSS (Deep Sky Stacker) and processed in Photoshop.
The constellation of Monoceros is in between Orion and Canis Major in the night sky, you’ll easily see the lovely open star cluster NGC 2244 with a pair of binoculars…but the Rosette Nebula is very faint, its beauty is best seen in a long exposure photograph :-)
Photographer's website:
http://www.mystardustobservatory.com/
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