Roses are Red!
It was so good to be back under clear skies at the beginning of February! Our weather patterns can be a challenge for an amateur astronomer! A few targets I hoped to shoot this winter have come and gone – but there’s always something on the horizon.
Just east of the Orion constellation lies NGC2244, The
Rosette Nebula in the constellation Monoceros. The nebula’s diameter is 130 light years and it just fits into my telescope’s field-of-view @ the distance of 5200 light years from earth.
After the moon set around 10pm I was able to collect almost
3 hours of precious photons! It stayed clear all night and bottomed out at a manageable
-12c.
Psalm 33:6 The Lord merely spoke, and the heavens were created. He breathed the word, and all the stars were born.
Psalm 33:6 The Lord merely spoke, and the heavens were created. He breathed the word, and all the stars were born.
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| NGC2244 The Rosette Nebula: 49 frames @ 3.5 minutes = 2hrs 51.5mins @ 1600iso taken February 3&4, 2014 |
