Judy SchmidtSometimes you just gotta do some heavy lifting and remove a few quadrillion trillion tons of burning hydrogen out of the way.
The year is 2004. Once more, in October, Hubble turns to look at the light echo of V838 Mon.
It's hard to see blended against the other observations, so here's that last layer on its own. Seriously looks liquidy.
anyone else see the Easter bunny in there? 😂
Brought the stars back after isolating them to their own layer so they wouldn't add up and be super bright since they're all in the same spots over the years unlike the nebula. Also added a 2005 observation. Unsure if I want to add more or just stop here.
Stick a fork in it, it's done. (For now.) Added one final dataset from 2006 in violet. It definitely needed violet. 🏳️🌈 😆 https://flic.kr/p/2pFpQbY
V838 Mon Light Echo
Matt@spacegeck Mind-blowing... good work!
Juffo-Wup@spacegeck
Just Wow.
Just Wow.
Trey@spacegeck This is really cool! I’ve enjoyed watching the progress on this.
d33psky@spacegeck great work and fully agree on the violet :)
Juan Carlos Muñoz@spacegeck It's been fascinating seeing this image take shape layer by layer. 🤩
MikPetter@spacegeck Looks fabulous…
Jac BerneCongratulation. Great Work!
Had the same idea a while ago...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/185130090@N02/52174049543/in/dateposted-public
...but I would also do it differently today.
V838 Mon Composit (APOD 2022 Jun 26)
@jacberneavao Yeah, I've had numerous ideas to try to help people understand this thing (it really seems to confuse people more than a lot of other images) but they didn't really pan out. I'm really liking my current take, though, at least in visual appeal. I'll have to see if it still confuses people though.
Richard Hendricks@spacegeck Excited to see you back, Judy. Wonderous work as always. Power supply finally come in? If you put a donation page up, I would gladly chip in.
@hendric Yep, I successfully RMAed it with Seasonic. No worries about donations. Thanks!
yuval
AstroMike@spacegeck Ooh even better
@spacegeck This looks amazing! 😮
@astro_jcm Thanks, it's taking me a good bit of time to remove the stars from the seven different observations I've got 😅
🔻 aetios 🇪🇺@spacegeck What are we looking at?
@aetios A new take on the V838 Mon light echo.
Knud Jahnke
Prof Heino Falcke@spacegeck Is that an average over time or September 2, 2002?
@hfalcke The four combined observations (only F606W) from 2002, with older light redder. So color represents time rather than wavelength. I wanted a better look at the overall structure without the confounding appearance of movement that animation results in.
@spacegeck Ah yes.
Great idea 👍 (just needs some explanation to understand). Thanks.
Great idea 👍 (just needs some explanation to understand). Thanks.