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Old September 6th 08, 06:38 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.astro
Rick Johnson[_2_]
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Default ASTRO: Recently discovered "Cygnus Bubble Nebula" in Halpha



Richard Crisp wrote:

Just yesterday I became aware of a new "bubble nebula" in Cygnus near the
Crescent.

It is so perfectly round with such a well defined border that it really
looked like a plate defect in the discovery shot.

I imaged it last night at 0.41"/ pixel using the 18" f/12.6 classical
cassegrain (F=5760mm), the FLI Proline 9000 and the Baader Planetarium 50 x
50 mm square Halpha filter

The total exposure time was 10 x 20 minutes or 3 hours 20 minutes

http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/cbu...er_ha_page.htm

Perhaps I can get a chance to shoot some other emission line filters in the
near future.....

I looked at my old widefield from 2004 and reprocessed it a bit to better
highlight it. Unfortunately it is a coarse image scale but it is definitely
there


I was wondering when you'd be taking a shot of it.

Also I've heard McNeil's nebula has again reappeared. I can't get to it
as yet due to trees and tons of clouds. It's just too low for my seeing
as well.

Rick


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