Wonderful images, John! I also like your Vela supernova image(s):
http://www.celestialimage.com/page173.html
Believe it or not, this was the last thing Mark and I looked at! It wasn't on any of our lists, I just happened on it on page 187 of Uranometria South. Easy to star-hop to, and HUGE! No filamentary structure seen like The Veil, but many "threads," or "pencils" filling up the eyepiece.
I've been surfing Daniel Verschatse's page (where I linked to The Gabriela Mistral Nebula--did you know it was called that, John?); great images there, too! Here's one of Gum 12, The Vela Supernova remnant:
http://www.astrosurf.com/antilhue/ngc_2736_-_the_pencil_nebula.htm
And one of 3576 (remember that one, Mark?):
http://www.astrosurf.com/antilhue/ngc_3576_+_ngc_3603_(ha).htm
And the "southern ring," or the "eight-burst nebula":
http://www.astrosurf.com/antilhue/ngc_3132.htm
And here's one of Shapley 1:
http://www.astrosurf.com/antilhue/shapley1.htm
Ray Cash
john gleason <dvj@No-Spam> wrote:
This is a great CCD object. Here is my recent image in Ha.
http://www.celestialimage.com/page175.html
and here it is in relationship to the greater Eta Car complex:
http://www.celestialimage.com/page183.html
--jg
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Cash
Sent: Mar 22, 2005 9:25 AM
To: The Astronomy Connection
Subject: [TAC] Gabriela Mistral Nebula--Chile
On one of the last nights in Chile, Mark was working from a list Steve Gottlieb had provided... He called me over to his eyepiece view of NGC 3324, an emission nebula very near to, and probably a detached portion of, the Eta Carinae Nebula. Steve had nicknamed it "The Southern Crescent." Indeed, a very nice semicircular, bright nebula, which responded to filters well. Similar in form and size to NGC 6888, hence Steve's nickname. As we were comparing views and playing with filters (in my 13 and his 10) Loke Tan, one of the two astrophotographers on site, told us that this nebula was nicknamed by Chilenos--especially of this region--"The Gabriela Mistral Nebula." (Gabriela Mistral was a Nobel Prize winner of Literature--a local heroine.) Click on the below link, and you'll see why:
http://www.astrosurf.com/antilhue/NGC%203324.htm
Here's another image of the "profile":
http://www.ctio.noao.edu/~leiton/pictures/gabi.gif
Ray Cash
Received on Tue Mar 22 11:15:06 2005
