Angerman 🦅#hobby update post 🔭
Another recent hobby project I finally had some time to process. It’s been a while since my last; busy, no good conditions and some other stuff.
This is Jones-Emberson 1 (PK 164+31.1), also known as the Headphone Nebula. It’s a very faint planetary nebula in the constellation 🌌 Lynx, located about 1600 light-years away.
Planetary nebulae are the final stage of medium-mass stars like our Sun. The outer layers are expelled while the core collapses into a hot blue-white dwar, which in this case is an extremely faint 16.8 magnitude central star.
What makes this target interesting for astrophotography is its very low surface brightness. Even though the nebula spans a relatively large area of the sky, the emitted light is extremely faint, making it a challenging object to capture and process.
Always amazing to realize that the light captured here started its journey around the time the Roman Empire was still expanding. 🌌
