RCW38 in Vela

Post by **rcj** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 1:04 am

Hi all,

Here is a new object captured in Vela, one of the numerous nebulosity in this viscidity. RCW 38 is the bright nebula in the center of the image located about 5500 LY away from us. 120min worth of HA exposures through the 5" refractor and ST8300M on G11.

shirox · Post by **shirox** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 1:17 am

hot hot from oven!!!!!

Junming-jm · Post by **Junming-jm** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 6:03 pm

Nice! Remus you post it at the wrong website, it should be on cloudynight. .

shirox · Post by **shirox** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 6:18 pm

halo.... dun say like that le. Singastro is not in anyway inferior to cloudynights. lol
Singaporeans should support local forum first! hahaha lol

letburn · Post by **letburn** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 6:34 pm

nice capture ! its beautiful (:

Junming-jm · Post by **Junming-jm** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 6:59 pm

shirox wrote:halo.... dun say like that le. Singastro is not in anyway inferior to cloudynights. lol
Singaporeans should support local forum first! hahaha lol

Sorry ,I think I phase it wrongly haha. My meaning is to send it to cloudy night for competition .

shirox · Post by **shirox** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 7:40 pm

hahaha then that is correct! lol

Post by **rcj** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 2:46 am

tonight's clear again. managed to obtain some OIII data for this object as well. Here is the colorized version:

shirox · Post by **shirox** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 11:25 am

feels like its burning there.....

cloud_cover · Post by **cloud_cover** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 12:16 pm

It is..... hydrogen hot nuclear fusion......