September 2023: Messier 15, a Gloular Star Cluster and NGC 7635, The Bubble Nebula
Here are 2 images from my 90mm Askar telescope, taken last night. I'm still working unguided due to equipment failure -
both these images were taken from stacks at 20 seconds exposure. The red colored gas cloud surrounds NGC 7635 - the Bubble Nebula,
and you can see the bubble illuminated by a hot young star. This artifact is caused by stellar winds from that star pushing out gases
emitted from the star surface in a spherical shell. A molecular cloud in the region is pushing back - that's the red stuff beyond the bubble.
The second image is Messier 15, a globular cluster of stars 35,700 light years away.
This image is of interest because it illustrates the limitations of a small telescope like mine - the best possible resolution of
the optics is proportional to the diameter of the objective and there's nothing I can do to make it better short of buying a much larger telescope.
Hubble does a little better but those people are so boastful, always bragging about their monster telescope in space!
Credit goes to my wife Sue who did the Photoshop work to pull out the bubble and gas clouds buried deep in my images. I tried and failed.
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