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The Skull Nebula, in Time for Halloween

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2015 11:04 pm
by Russ.Carpenter
Here is the infamous Skull Nebula, AKA the Pac-Man nebula. about 1,600 light years from Earth. The central star is a white dwarf. I snagged the image on a 27inch Planewave, located at iTelescope in Siding Springs, Australia. 1.2 hours of imaging time, divided equally among R, G and B, binned 1X1. The subs were stacked and aligned in PixInsight, everything else was in StarTools, except for a tiny bit of cleanup in my new favorite general purpose processing program, Affinity Photo.
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Re: The Skull Nebula, in Time for Halloween

Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 1:10 am
by admin
Rotate it ~ 80degs clock wise and the skull is looking at you straight - wonderful image!

:occasion-happyhalloween:

Re: The Skull Nebula, in Time for Halloween

Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 3:25 pm
by Russ.Carpenter
Of course! Check out this more ghoulish version.
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Re: The Skull Nebula, in Time for Halloween

Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 2:18 am
by admin
Perfect! :thumbsup:
Sometimes it's a mystery to me why objects are named the way they are, but I love it when someone nails it - like you did here - and you can clearly see where people were getting at when they came up with the name. :D

Re: The Skull Nebula, in Time for Halloween

Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2015 1:47 am
by Hondo
Nice work. The Pacman Nebula is actually NGC 281.