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The Crab Nebula (M1) - Cropped
The Crab Nebula (also know as Messier M1 or NGC 1952) is a supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula in the constellation of Taurus. The result of a bright supernova recorded by Chinese astronomers in 1054, the nebula is approximately 6,500 light years from Earth. At the center of the nebula lies the Crab Pulsar, a neutron star 28–30 km across with a spin rate of 30.2 times per second.
This image was captured using a QHY8L camera attached to a Altair Wave 115 Triplet Refractor and comprises 14 x 300s exposures, stacked in Nebulosity 3 and processed in Photoshop CS6.
The Crab Nebula (M1) - Cropped
The Crab Nebula (also know as Messier M1 or NGC 1952) is a supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula in the constellation of Taurus. The result of a bright supernova recorded by Chinese astronomers in 1054, the nebula is approximately 6,500 light years from Earth. At the center of the nebula lies the Crab Pulsar, a neutron star 28–30 km across with a spin rate of 30.2 times per second.
This image was captured using a QHY8L camera attached to a Altair Wave 115 Triplet Refractor and comprises 14 x 300s exposures, stacked in Nebulosity 3 and processed in Photoshop CS6.