📸 Supernova Remnant Simeis 147
Simeis 147, also called the Spaghetti Nebula, is a vast supernova remnant 3,000 light-years away in Taurus and Auriga. Glowing hydrogen and oxygen filaments stretch across a region six times the width of the full Moon. A pulsar marks the collapsed core of the original star.
📅 January 13, 2022
📷 Jason Dain
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The Spaghetti Nebula
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Oh, I'm slightly proud of this one 🤓 It's not just my most complex project so far but also a very faint and challenging target.

The Spaghetti Nebula, also known as Simeis 147 or Sharpless 240, is a supernova remnant between the constellations Auriga and Taurus. It's a very faint nebula, relatively recently discovered in 1952 by Crimean Astrophysical Observatory by Grigory Shajn and his team.

The nebula exhibits an almost spherical shell with a filamentary structure. It has an apparent diameter of about 3 degrees, a distance of approximately 3.000 light-years, and an estimated age of around 40.000 years. At this distance, its span is roughly 160 light-years.

Scope: Askar 103APO
Lens: Askar 0.6x Reducer
Camera: Canon EOS 6Da
Filter: Antlia TriBand RGB Ultra
Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ5 GT
Guiding: Svbony SV165 Guide Scope with ZWO ASI 224MC
Controller: ZWO ASIAir Pro

Integration time: 14hrs 30min

Full version and print available at: https://adfr.io/astro/20241227_simeis147

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