by rkas12 » Fri Apr 28, 2023 2:43 pm
Submission on behalf of ShaRA Team
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/528 ... ff98_h.jpg
I am super thrilled to share on behalf of the ShaRA team our take on the so-called “
GUM 14 & 15”. A challenging target and yet successfully handled by our team.
What does the ShaRA acronym stand for? In a nutshell, it’s a new open project called Shared Remote Astrophotography, acronym “ShaRA”, and is based on crowd or group funding for buying imaging time on large telescopes around the world. The project was born a few months ago.
For this image, more than a dozen of highly motivated astrophotographers combined their skills to publish such a beautiful image. To get to this level of details, the group rent over several nights a Riccardi-Honders RH 200 scope located in the Southern Hemisphere, i.e., Rio Hurtado, Chile. The colors palette of the image is obtained by combining different wavelengths together, namely Ha, Oiii, and LRGB filters.
Coming back to the target, it boiled down like killing more than two birds with one stone; two little-photographed nebulae in the Southern Hemisphere, located in the constellation of Vela and apparently linked to each other. GUM14, the largest, is an emission nebula excited by a class O blue supergiant and prospectively adjacent to a complex of reflection nebulae the most important of which is NGC2626. GUM15 is another emission nebula which, together with GUM14, belongs to the Vela Molecular Ridge: a mega molecular complex full of young and hot stars, which, thanks to their radiation, becomes visible to our telescopes.
Acquisition details:
Copyright: ShaRA team
Scope: Riccardi-Honders RH 200
Filters: HaOiiiLRGB
Total Integration Time: 11H
Location: Rio Hurtado, El Sauce Observatory (Chilescope)
Link to article:
https://astrotrex.wordpress.com/2023/04 ... nd-bubble/
We hope to hear back from you very soon.
Meanwhile, warm regards,
Aygen, on behalf of ShaRA.
[b]Submission on behalf of ShaRA Team[/b]
[img2]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52853414276_6eda032548_b.jpg[/img2]
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52853414276_de13dfff98_h.jpg
I am super thrilled to share on behalf of the ShaRA team our take on the so-called “[url=https://flickr.com/photos/197387915@N03/52853414276/][b]GUM 14 & 15[/b][/url]”. A challenging target and yet successfully handled by our team.
What does the ShaRA acronym stand for? In a nutshell, it’s a new open project called Shared Remote Astrophotography, acronym “ShaRA”, and is based on crowd or group funding for buying imaging time on large telescopes around the world. The project was born a few months ago.
For this image, more than a dozen of highly motivated astrophotographers combined their skills to publish such a beautiful image. To get to this level of details, the group rent over several nights a Riccardi-Honders RH 200 scope located in the Southern Hemisphere, i.e., Rio Hurtado, Chile. The colors palette of the image is obtained by combining different wavelengths together, namely Ha, Oiii, and LRGB filters.
Coming back to the target, it boiled down like killing more than two birds with one stone; two little-photographed nebulae in the Southern Hemisphere, located in the constellation of Vela and apparently linked to each other. GUM14, the largest, is an emission nebula excited by a class O blue supergiant and prospectively adjacent to a complex of reflection nebulae the most important of which is NGC2626. GUM15 is another emission nebula which, together with GUM14, belongs to the Vela Molecular Ridge: a mega molecular complex full of young and hot stars, which, thanks to their radiation, becomes visible to our telescopes.
[b]Acquisition details[/b]:
Copyright: ShaRA team
Scope: Riccardi-Honders RH 200
Filters: HaOiiiLRGB
Total Integration Time: 11H
Location: Rio Hurtado, El Sauce Observatory (Chilescope)
Link to article: [url]https://astrotrex.wordpress.com/2023/04/28/shara4-part-i-bubbles-and-bubble/[/url]
We hope to hear back from you very soon.
Meanwhile, warm regards,
Aygen, on behalf of ShaRA.