The Owl Nebula - M97 by Stegy
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This is a photo taken on 5/25/08 of the Owl Nebula or M97 (from the Messier Catalog of Deep Space Objects). It is classified as a Planetary Nebula, which actually has nothing to do with planets. Rather, it is a White Dwarf Star which has blown out its outer layers and now illuminates the surrounding gas. It gets its name from the appearance of two wide owl-like eyes. If you look closely, you can also see a faint galaxy just below Nebula.
The exposure time was a total of 190 minutes, using a black and white CCD camera. The color comes from using colored filters to give individual luminance, red, green, and blue layers, which are re-assembled using CCDSoft and Photoshop software.
The telescope used was an 11" SCT Celestron on a Losmandy G11 Equatorial mount.
Comments (3)
artaddict2
Stellar !
Optiramma
excellent. i see the owl and the galaxy. that picture took a long time to get here, lol
Tubeman
You must have quite a telescope. Thats a great picture!