WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 73- DID YOU SAY “BRIGHT”?
Lynds Bright Nebula 1122 is a cloud of
dust located in the constellation Libra
the Scales. Beverly T. Lynds, the creator
of a catalog of similar objects, rated
this one at a 4 out of 6 (with 6 being
the dimmest) on her brightness scale.
(3.6-inch Astro-Tech AT90EDT refractor
at f/6.7, SBIG ST-8300M CCD camera,
LRGB image with exposures of 120, 40,
40, and 40 minutes, respectively)
- Dan Crowson
- NEAR AND FAR
This set documents the changing sizes
of the Sun and the Full Moon during
a one-year span. From left to right,
they represent the Full Moon nearest
perigee, when the Moon’s apparent
diameter was 33.81'; perihelion, when
the Sun’s diameter was 32.55'; aphelion
(31.48'); and the Full Moon nearest
apogee (29.72'). (8-inch Sky-Watcher
Newtonian reflector, Canon 40D DSLR,
each image is a stack of 30 frames,
taken from Kerman, Iran)
- Ehsan Rostamizadeh
- GALAXY THROUGH GAS
Barnard’s Galaxy (NGC 6822) lies 1.6
million light-years away in Sagittarius.
Between it and us, however, is the
Integrated Flux Nebula, gas and dust
illuminated by the combined energy
of the Milky Way’s stars. Also, the blue
disk to the upper right is the planetary
nebula called the Little Gem (NGC
6818). (16-inch Dream Telescopes
Astrograph at f/3.75, Apogee Alta
U16M CCD camera, LRGB image with
exposures of 60, 6, 6, and 6 minutes,
respectively) • Kfir Simon - DUSTY BEARD
NGC 1788 is a reflection nebula in
Orion with some red emission nebulae.
But the main object is the intensely
blue region at center and the dusty
swath running to the bottom of the
image. (14.5-inch RC Optical Systems
Ritchey-Chrétien telescope, Apogee
U16M CCD camera, LRGB image with
exposures of 300, 260, 160, and 260
minutes, respectively) • Mark Hanson
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