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APOD: Cygnus: Bubble and Crescent (2020 Oct 17)

Post by APOD Robot » Sat Oct 17, 2020 4:05 am

Image Cygnus: Bubble and Crescent

Explanation: These clouds of gas and dust drift through rich star fields along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy toward the high flying constellation Cygnus. Caught within the telescopic field of view are the Soap Bubble (lower left) and the Crescent Nebula (upper right). Both were formed at a final phase in the life of a star. Also known as NGC 6888, the Crescent was shaped as its bright, central massive Wolf-Rayet star, WR 136, shed its outer envelope in a strong stellar wind. Burning through fuel at a prodigious rate, WR 136 is near the end of a short life that should finish in a spectacular supernova explosion. Discovered in 2013, the Soap Bubble Nebula is likely a planetary nebula, the final shroud of a lower mass, long-lived, sun-like star destined to become a slowly cooling white dwarf. Both stellar shrouds are 5,000 light-years or so distant. The larger Crescent Nebula is around 25 light-years across.

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Re: APOD: Cygnus: Bubble and Crescent (2020 Oct 17)

Post by VictorBorun » Sat Oct 17, 2020 9:25 am

What does make RGB white here?
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• red channel is Hα filtered with Chroma 3nm, integrated across 10.0 hours
• blue channel is OIII filtered with Chroma 3nm, integrated across 10.0 hours

So what is white?

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Re: APOD: Cygnus: Bubble and Crescent (2020 Oct 17)

Post by JohnD » Sat Oct 17, 2020 10:21 am

There's a black dot in the centre of the Crescent Nebula. Small dust cloud outside it, or what?
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Post by orin stepanek » Sat Oct 17, 2020 11:20 am

NGC6888WissamAyoub1024.jpg

JMO; but to me it looks as though the Crescent may be another
bubble with a lot more stuff inside! :mrgreen:
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Post by sillyworm 2 » Sat Oct 17, 2020 12:40 pm

Someone must have been having a less than imaginative day.The Screaming Praying Mantis Head Nebula.

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Post by JohnD » Sat Oct 17, 2020 1:07 pm

sillyworm 2 wrote: Sat Oct 17, 2020 12:40 pm Someone must have been having a less than imaginative day.The Screaming Praying Mantis Head Nebula.
Well named.

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Post by Chris Peterson » Sat Oct 17, 2020 2:04 pm

VictorBorun wrote: Sat Oct 17, 2020 9:25 am What does make RGB white here?
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• red channel is Hα filtered with Chroma 3nm, integrated across 10.0 hours
• blue channel is OIII filtered with Chroma 3nm, integrated across 10.0 hours

So what is white?
I think your assumptions about the channel mapping are incorrect. I'd say that the Hα is assigned to red, and the O[III] is assigned approximately equally to the green and blue (thus, cyan). That is consistent with the image histogram. So white will occur wherever the intensity from the two source channels is the same (subject to whatever aesthetic color balancing the imager used).
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Re: APOD: Cygnus: Bubble and Crescent (2020 Oct 17)

Post by neufer » Sat Oct 17, 2020 2:34 pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_Cygni wrote:
<<Gamma Cygni (γ Cygni, abbreviated Gamma Cyg, γ Cyg), officially named Sadr is a star in the northern constellation of Cygnus, forming the intersection of an asterism of five stars called the Northern Cross. Based upon the Hipparcos mission, it is approximately 1,800 light-years (560 parsecs) from the Sun. With an apparent visual magnitude of 2.23, Gamma Cygni is among the brighter stars visible in the night sky. The stellar classification of this star is F8 Iab, indicating that it has reached the supergiant stage of its stellar evolution. The spectrum of this star shows some unusual dynamic features, including variations in radial velocity of up to 2 km/s, occurring on a time scale of 100 days or more. Indeed, on the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram, Gamma Cygni lies close to the instability strip and its spectrum is markedly like that of a Cepheid variable. This star is surrounded by a diffuse nebula called IC 1318, or the Gamma Cygni region.

Compared to the Sun this is an enormous star, with 12 times the Sun's mass and about 150 times the Sun's radius. It is emitting over 33,000 times as much energy as the Sun, at an effective temperature of 6,100 K in its outer envelope. This temperature is what gives the star the characteristic yellow-white hue of an F-type star. Massive stars such as this consume their nuclear fuel much more rapidly than the Sun, so the estimated age of this star is only about 12 million years old.>>
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Re: APOD: Cygnus: Bubble and Crescent (2020 Oct 17)

Post by johnnydeep » Sat Oct 17, 2020 7:45 pm

JohnD wrote: Sat Oct 17, 2020 10:21 am There's a black dot in the centre of the Crescent Nebula. Small dust cloud outside it, or what?
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Zooming in, it just looks like a small local unusually dark area. Optically intriguing, but probably nothing that special. But what do I know?
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Re: APOD: Cygnus: Bubble and Crescent (2020 Oct 17)

Post by Ann » Sat Oct 17, 2020 8:05 pm

neufer wrote: Sat Oct 17, 2020 2:34 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_Cygni wrote: Compared to the Sun this is an enormous star, with 12 times the Sun's mass and about 150 times the Sun's radius. It is emitting over 33,000 times as much energy as the Sun, at an effective temperature of 6,100 K in its outer envelope. This temperature is what gives the star the characteristic yellow-white hue of an F-type star. Massive stars such as this consume their nuclear fuel much more rapidly than the Sun, so the estimated age of this star is only about 12 million years old.>>

The characteristic yellow-white hue of an F-type star?


Give me a break. :facepalm:

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Re: APOD: Cygnus: Bubble and Crescent (2020 Oct 17)

Post by ems57fcva » Sat Oct 17, 2020 8:22 pm

Where is the central star for the Soap Bubble nebula? The location if WR136 is fairly obvious (even if it is off-center). There is no star at the center of the Soap Bubble and nothing that I can see connects any of the stars in its range to the nebula. (My guess is that the star is obscured by dust, but that is just a guess.)

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Re: APOD: Cygnus: Bubble and Crescent (2020 Oct 17)

Post by neufer » Sat Oct 17, 2020 10:06 pm

ems57fcva wrote: Sat Oct 17, 2020 8:22 pm
Where is the central star for the Soap Bubble nebula? The location if WR136 is fairly obvious (even if it is off-center). There is no star at the center of the Soap Bubble and nothing that I can see connects any of the stars in its range to the nebula. (My guess is that the star is obscured by dust, but that is just a guess.)
:arrow: WR 136 is a 7.5 magnitude Wolf–Rayet star located in the middle of the 3 near-vertical stars in the June 10, 2016, APOD at left.

It is obscured by a heavy emphasis on narrow filter data in today's APOD.
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Post by neufer » Sat Oct 17, 2020 10:46 pm

Ann wrote: Sat Oct 17, 2020 8:05 pm

The characteristic
yellow-white hue
of an F-type star?



Give me a break. :facepalm:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-type_main-sequence_star wrote:
<<An F-type main-sequence star is a main-sequence, hydrogen-fusing compact star of spectral type F and luminosity class V. These stars have from 1.0 to 1.4 times the mass of the Sun and surface temperatures between 6,000 and 7,600 K. This temperature range gives the F-type stars a yellow-white hue. Because a main-sequence star is referred to as a dwarf star, this class of star may also be termed a yellow-white dwarf (so as not to be confused with actual white dwarfs).>>

A famous example is Procyon A which has a color index of 0.42, and its hue has been described as having a faint yellow tinge to it. :arrow:
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Post by Stephane » Sat Oct 17, 2020 10:59 pm

Bravo Wissam Ayoub, what a gorgeously rendered and absolutely insane nebula! Crescent? Where, a crescent? It's the attack of the monster space jellyfish. There's already a Jellyfish Nebula, so... the Alien Brains on Fire Nebula? Hm? You can see all the blood vessels and there's even a clot, the thing is so enraged it's burst a vessel. Unless that little dark blob near the center is a proplyd? Imagine that, having your solar system inside that monstrosity, on the edge of being EATEN ALIVE (well OK, not literally) by the big bad Wolf Rayet. Brrr.

And the soap bubble just happens to be there, right? Blown by the monster jellyfish? Running away? Really controlling all of it, all empty-looking that it is? Never trust a planetary nebula - they're not what they claim to be.

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Re: Ann's Fauci Facepalm F grade for F star's "yellow-white" hue

Post by Ann » Sun Oct 18, 2020 5:44 am

neufer wrote: Sat Oct 17, 2020 10:46 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-type_main-sequence_star wrote:
<<An F-type main-sequence star is a main-sequence, hydrogen-fusing compact star of spectral type F and luminosity class V. These stars have from 1.0 to 1.4 times the mass of the Sun and surface temperatures between 6,000 and 7,600 K. This temperature range gives the F-type stars a yellow-white hue. Because a main-sequence star is referred to as a dwarf star, this class of star may also be termed a yellow-white dwarf (so as not to be confused with actual white dwarfs).>>

A famous example is Procyon A which has a color index of 0.42, and its hue has been described as having a faint yellow tinge to it. :arrow:
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You call that yellow-white????? 🡆 🡆 🡆

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54 out of the 93 brightest-looking stars in the sky belong to spectral classes A, B and O. They shine with a blue-white light. But because the light-sensitive rods in the human retina are very good at picking up faint blue light (and "translate it" into white light), while simultaneously the color-sensitive cones are quite bad at discerning faint blue light, blue-white starlight usually looks white to us.

27 out of the 93 brightest-looking stars in the sky belong to spectral classes K and M. The cones in our eyes is a lot better at seeing faint yellow light than faint blue light, so we usually have no trouble seeing stars of spectral classes K and M as yellow. Also, since there are usually some bright stars of spectral classes A, B or O nearby in the sky, the sheer contrast brings out the yellowish hue of the K- and M-type stars.

But since astronomers fairly long ago decided to "define" the blue-white light of Vega as "pure white", the yellow-orange light of M-type stars gets defined as "red". The yellow light of a star like Pollux gets defined as "orange". And the Sun gets defined as "yellow". Tell me, if the Sun is yellow, how come daylight is white?

And F-type stars like Procyon gets defined as yellow-white. Give me a break. Do you realize how blue our day-light would be if the Sun suddenly took on the same color as Procyon?


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Re: APOD: Cygnus: Bubble and Crescent (2020 Oct 17)

Post by VictorBorun » Sun Oct 18, 2020 5:53 am

Chris Peterson wrote: Sat Oct 17, 2020 2:04 pm I'd say that the Hα is assigned to red, and the O[III] is assigned approximately equally to the green and blue (thus, cyan). That is consistent with the image histogram. So white will occur wherever the intensity from the two source channels is the same (subject to whatever aesthetic color balancing the imager used).
But look at thin shining layers around the Crescent! It's definitely RGB blue.
Some authors try to make OIII look the ghostly nebulium green-cyan that 501 nm + 496 nm really is. But not here.

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Re: APOD: Cygnus: Bubble and Crescent (2020 Oct 17)

Post by Ann » Sun Oct 18, 2020 7:23 am

neufer wrote: Sat Oct 17, 2020 10:06 pm
ems57fcva wrote: Sat Oct 17, 2020 8:22 pm
Where is the central star for the Soap Bubble nebula? The location if WR136 is fairly obvious (even if it is off-center). There is no star at the center of the Soap Bubble and nothing that I can see connects any of the stars in its range to the nebula. (My guess is that the star is obscured by dust, but that is just a guess.)
:arrow: WR 136 is a 7.5 magnitude Wolf–Rayet star located in the middle of the 3 near-vertical stars in the June 10, 2016, APOD at left.

It is obscured by a heavy emphasis on narrow filter data in today's APOD.

The picture at right brings home the brightness of the central star and the relative faintness of the nebula.

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Re: APOD: Cygnus: Bubble and Crescent (2020 Oct 17)

Post by Ann » Sun Oct 18, 2020 7:24 am

VictorBorun wrote: Sun Oct 18, 2020 5:53 am
Chris Peterson wrote: Sat Oct 17, 2020 2:04 pm I'd say that the Hα is assigned to red, and the O[III] is assigned approximately equally to the green and blue (thus, cyan). That is consistent with the image histogram. So white will occur wherever the intensity from the two source channels is the same (subject to whatever aesthetic color balancing the imager used).
But look at thin shining layers around the Crescent! It's definitely RGB blue.
Some authors try to make OIII look the ghostly nebulium green-cyan that 501 nm + 496 nm really is. But not here.
Welcome, Victor! You are very new here, but you have already made some very smart and knowledgeable posts in this forum.

It's good to have you here!

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Re: Ann's Fauci Facepalm F grade for F star's "yellow-white" hue

Post by neufer » Sun Oct 18, 2020 6:40 pm

Ann wrote: Sun Oct 18, 2020 5:44 am 54 out of the 93 brightest-looking stars in the sky belong to spectral classes A, B and O. They shine with a blue-white light. But because the light-sensitive rods in the human retina are very good at picking up faint blue light (and "translate it" into white light), while simultaneously the color-sensitive cones are quite bad at discerning faint blue light, blue-white starlight usually looks white to us.

27 out of the 93 brightest-looking stars in the sky belong to spectral classes K and M. The cones in our eyes is a lot better at seeing faint yellow light than faint blue light, so we usually have no trouble seeing stars of spectral classes K and M as yellow. Also, since there are usually some bright stars of spectral classes A, B or O nearby in the sky, the sheer contrast brings out the yellowish hue of the K- and M-type stars.

But since astronomers fairly long ago decided to "define" the blue-white light of Vega as "pure white", the yellow-orange light of M-type stars gets defined as "red". The yellow light of a star like Pollux gets defined as "orange". And the Sun gets defined as "yellow". Tell me, if the Sun is yellow, how come daylight is white?

And F-type stars like Procyon gets defined as yellow-white. Give me a break. Do you realize how blue our day-light would be if the Sun suddenly took on the same color as Procyon?
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<<Light sources and illuminants may be characterized by their spectral power distribution (SPD). The relative SPD curves provided by many manufacturers may have been produced using 10 nm increments or more on their spectroradiometer. The result is what would seem to be a smoother ("fuller spectrum") power distribution than the lamp actually has. Owing to their spiky distribution, much finer increments are advisable for taking measurements of fluorescent lights, and this requires more expensive equipment.

In astronomy, the color temperature is defined by the local slope of the SPD at a given wavelength, or, in practice, a wavelength range. Given, for example, the color magnitudes B and V which are calibrated to be equal for an A0V star (e.g. Vega), the stellar color temperature TC is given by the temperature for which the color index B-V of a black-body radiator fits the stellar one. Besides the B-V, other color indices can be used as well. The color temperature (as well as the correlated color temperature defined above) may differ largely from the effective temperature given by the radiative flux of the stellar surface. For example, the color temperature of an A0V star is about 15000 K compared to an effective temperature of about 9500 K.>>
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Re: Ann's Fauci Facepalm F grade for F star's "yellow-white" hue

Post by Ann » Sun Oct 18, 2020 6:55 pm

neufer wrote: Sun Oct 18, 2020 6:40 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness wrote:
<<Truthiness is the belief or assertion that a particular statement is true based on the intuition or perceptions of some individual or individuals, without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts.>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition wrote:
<<A Definition is a statement of the meaning of a term (a word, phrase, or other set of symbols). Definitions can be classified into two large categories, intensional definitions (which try to give the sense of a term) and extensional definitions (which try to list the objects that a term describes). Another important category of definitions is the class of ostensive definitions, which convey the meaning of a term by pointing out examples. A term may have many different senses and multiple meanings, and thus require multiple definitions.>>

Right! So we might define these two boys 🡆 🡆 🡆
as yellow-white dwarfs? I mean they are pretty yellow-white in color, and they are quite small, so you could maybe say they are "dwarfs"! Maybe they are F-type stars! They are F-type star boys!


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature wrote:
<<Light sources and illuminants may be characterized by their spectral power distribution (SPD). The relative SPD curves provided by many manufacturers may have been produced using 10 nm increments or more on their spectroradiometer. The result is what would seem to be a smoother ("fuller spectrum") power distribution than the lamp actually has. Owing to their spiky distribution, much finer increments are advisable for taking measurements of fluorescent lights, and this requires more expensive equipment.

In astronomy, the color temperature is defined by the local slope of the SPD at a given wavelength, or, in practice, a wavelength range. Given, for example, the color magnitudes B and V which are calibrated to be equal for an A0V star (e.g. Vega), the stellar color temperature TC is given by the temperature for which the color index B-V of a black-body radiator fits the stellar one. Besides the B-V, other color indices can be used as well. The color temperature (as well as the correlated color temperature defined above) may differ largely from the effective temperature given by the radiative flux of the stellar surface. For example, the color temperature of an A0V star is about 15000 K compared to an effective temperature of about 9500 K.>>
Okay, thank you for that. I think you are saying that Vega is much bluer than it is given credit for.

I think you are saying that.

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