October 23, 2011

2011-06-30 – Dumbell Nebula


Also while I was taking some pictures of the Ring Nebula, I decided to take a quick look at the dumbbell nebula.  Here I did some darkening like I did on the Orion Nebula before.  It got better, but I think some better planning, light pollution filters, etc. would make it better.
Canon Rebel XS, through my 120mm refractor, with 10mm eyepiece projection, 90 seconds
Same picture, with some processing


2 comments:

  1. That's very cool looking but totally bizarre! Why does it look like snow falling, or like you're blasting into warp speed? Is that a distortion of the eyepiece? Still very neat looking, and one of my favorite objects!

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  2. I believe it's called vignetting. Definitely due to the eyepiece being in between the camera and scope

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