This image combined 2 hours 35 minutes of Luminance exposures with 20 minutes of green and red and 30 minutes of blue exposures, using an ST10XME camera through a TEC 140 mm refractor.
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| Galaxy M108 and Owl Nebula M97 in Ursa Major | |||||||||||||||||||
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| In the lower right of this image, the Owl Nebula taunts us "behind blue eyes." This planetary nebula is the ghost-like outer shell of gas blown off by a dying star, at a distance of about 3000 light years. Discovered in 1781, even small telescopes can detect the faint hollow eyes of the nebula, which earned its name in 1848. In the upper left of this image, Galaxy M108 lies over a thousand times further away, at a distance of 45 million light years. Its spiral form is concealed by its nearly edge-on orientation. This image combined 2 hours 35 minutes of Luminance exposures with 20 minutes of green and red and 30 minutes of blue exposures, using an ST10XME camera through a TEC 140 mm refractor. |
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| Music: Behind Blue Eyes, by the Who | |||||||||||||||||||