Bubble Nebula
by Jim DeLillo
Title
Bubble Nebula
Artist
Jim DeLillo
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photo
Description
NGC7635 - Actual astrophotograph. Bubble Nebula
24" Telescope Rodeo, New Mexico
Over 3 hours of exposure throught Ha, Red, Green, & Blue filters.
Multi-hour postprocessing. Maxim DL, FITS explorer, Photoshop.
Wikipedia:
NGC 7635, also called the Bubble Nebula, Sharpless 162, or Caldwell 11, is a H II region[2] emission nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia. It lies close to the direction of the open cluster Messier 52. The "bubble" is created by the stellar wind from a massive hot, 8.7[2] magnitude young central star, the 15 ¡À 5 M¨‘[4] SAO 20575 (BD+60 2522).[7] The nebula is near a giant molecular cloud which contains the expansion of the bubble nebula while itself being excited by the hot central star, causing it to glow.[7] It was discovered in 1787 by Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel.[6] The star SAO 20575 or BD+602522 is thought to have a mass of 10-40 Solar masses.
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December 13th, 2010
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Comments (10)
Lucy West
Excellent! Love this...from a fellow stargazer.
Jim DeLillo replied:
Thanks, Lucy. Keep gazing. I like your interpretation of the heavens in your work.
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