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NGC1579 Northern Trifiad

NGC1579 Northern Trifiad

Colorful NGC 1579 resembles the better known Trifid Nebula, but lies much farther north in planet Earth’s sky, in the heroic constellation Perseus. About 2,100 light-years away and 3 light-years across, NGC 1579 is, like the Trifid, a study in contrasting blue and red colors, with dark dust lanes prominent in the nebula’s central regions. In both, dust reflects starlight to produce beautiful blue reflection nebulae. But unlike the Trifid, in NGC 1579 the reddish glow is not emission from clouds of glowing hydrogen gas excited by ultraviolet light from a nearby hot star. Instead, the dust in NGC 1579 drastically diminishes, reddens, and scatters the light from an embedded, extremely young, massive star, itself a strong emitter of the characteristic red hydrogen alpha light   Explanation: taken from Astronomy Picture of the Day APOD

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NGC1579 15min Lum Subframe

NGC1579 15min Lum Subframes x 42 = 630 min combined image

NGC1579 15min Red Subframe

NGC1579 15min Red Subframes x 8 = 120 min combined image

NGC1579 15min Green Subframe

NGC1579 15min Green Subframes x 15 = 150 min combined image

NGC1579 15min Blue Subframe

NGC1579 15min Blue Subframes x 8 = 120 min combined image

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Scope               Planewave 17in

Camera            Apogee U16

Mount               Paramount ME

Filters               Astrodon  LRGB    

Exposures       R2hrs  G2.5hrs  B2hrs   L 10.5Hrs    LRGB 15min subs   Total 17hrs

Location          Sierra Nevada Mountains CA.  Heavens Mirror Observatory  SRO       2013

 

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