Skies were unexpectedly clear last night when I wasn't home. Maybe that's the trick! When we arrived back at the house later, I just slewed quickly to the Rosette Nebula and acquired just over an hour of data. Love the HyperStar!
Image taken Mar. 22 2025
The Rosette Nebula is a massive, beautiful cloud of gas and dust in space where new stars are being born. It’s about 5,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Monoceros (the Unicorn). The nebula gets its name because it looks like a giant, red-pink cosmic rose in long-exposure images.
At its center, a group of young, bright stars—called the open cluster NGC 2244—has formed from the nebula’s material. These stars give off strong radiation and winds that shape the surrounding gas into a hollow, flower-like structure. The glowing colors come from hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur gas being energized by the stars.
69x60" exposures (1hrs. 9mins.)
Scope: Celestron EdgeHD8 with Hyperstar v3 (425mm f/2.1)
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R
Guiding: N/A
Camera: Player One Poseidon-C
Filter: IDAS NBZ-II
Bortle: 5
Processed in Siril
Deep Space Astro
Skies were unexpectedly clear last night when I wasn't home. Maybe that's the trick! When we arrived back at the house later, I just slewed quickly to the Rosette Nebula and acquired just over an hour of data. Love the HyperStar!
Image taken Mar. 22 2025
The Rosette Nebula is a massive, beautiful cloud of gas and dust in space where new stars are being born. It’s about 5,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Monoceros (the Unicorn). The nebula gets its name because it looks like a giant, red-pink cosmic rose in long-exposure images.
At its center, a group of young, bright stars—called the open cluster NGC 2244—has formed from the nebula’s material. These stars give off strong radiation and winds that shape the surrounding gas into a hollow, flower-like structure. The glowing colors come from hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur gas being energized by the stars.
69x60" exposures (1hrs. 9mins.)
Scope: Celestron EdgeHD8 with Hyperstar v3 (425mm f/2.1)
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R
Guiding: N/A
Camera: Player One Poseidon-C
Filter: IDAS NBZ-II
Bortle: 5
Processed in Siril
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