NGC 2346

Time for a break from Arp galaxies. I took NGC 2346 last January. I'm
a bit behind in my processing. It is a rather famous planetary nebula
in Monoceros near Delta and not far from the more famous, far larger,
Rosette Nebula. Though the latter is a huge star birth region, NGC 2346
is a tiny star death region being a pair of stars, one of which is
dying, thus creating a bipolar planetary nebula about 2000 light years
away. The Hubble Space Telescope took a famous image of this one. It
has a good discussion about it so to save my typing fingers I'll just
refer you to the Hubble page on it.
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/arc...99/35/image/d/

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=4x10' RGB=2x10'x3, STL-11000XM, Paramount ME

Rick
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Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct.
Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh".

Beautiful image Rick. Another one I'll have to try, but being at the
celestial equator it is quite low...

Stefan

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Time for a break from Arp galaxies. I took NGC 2346 last January. I'm
a bit behind in my processing. It is a rather famous planetary nebula
in Monoceros near Delta and not far from the more famous, far larger,
Rosette Nebula. Though the latter is a huge star birth region, NGC 2346
is a tiny star death region being a pair of stars, one of which is
dying, thus creating a bipolar planetary nebula about 2000 light years
away. The Hubble Space Telescope took a famous image of this one. It
has a good discussion about it so to save my typing fingers I'll just
refer you to the Hubble page on it.
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/arc...99/35/image/d/

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=4x10' RGB=2x10'x3, STL-11000XM, Paramount ME

Rick
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Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct.
Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh".