Image Centered on Ra. 6 : 16.9 (hours : minutes) Dec.+22 : 47 (degrees : minutes)
Jellyfish Nebula (IC443)
Information (from the Noao web site) IC443 is the remnant of a star that exploded more than 1,000 years ago. The expanding bubble of gas now continues to plow through the interstellar medium (ISM, latent clouds of gas in our galaxy) and glow due to the interaction. Notice the very fine filaments of gas on the left side of the image. This form of star death is one of two methods known that "seed" the galaxy with heavy elements (to later form planets and humans perhaps).
Optics and exposure data
Telescope, Takahashi Fs60c 60mm fluorite APO
Mount, Losmandy G11 with Gemini control electronics
Imager, Starlite-Xpress SXV-h9 schuler Ha and OIII filter
Exposure data, Ha and OIII 180 minutes each . Ha 18 at 10 minutes each and OIII 36 at 5 minutes each to produce a bicolor image.
Images acquired with Astroart and aligned then combined in Maxim Dl. Final RGB composite processed with Photoshop Cs
Images acquired from my backyard - " Dirt Clod Observatory" in Antelope California
