Post Your Planetary Nebula

[Nighthound]

Planetary Nebula are many times a colorful display of emission nebula that surround a star during the last stage of its life. When a star becomes a pulsating red giant it begins to shed matter. The remaining very hot core then heats the ejected matter surrounding it making it glow. These beautiful objects are very short lived, under 50,000 years. Our Sun may be a spectacular Planetary Nebula in approximately 5 billion years. The name Planetary Nebula comes from early astronomers likening the objects to the planets.

These images were taken with a Takahashi Sky 90 II/Losmandy G-11 ( Owl Nebula/M108 ) and Meade 10" LX200 ( Eskimo Nebula ) / Canon 20D (unmodified)

M97/M108 (The Owl Nebula and nearby almost edge-on Spiral Galaxy)
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y67/Nighthd/Astrophotography/owlm108x.jpg

NGC 2392 (The Eskimo Nebula)
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y67/Nighthd/Astrophotography/eskimo2cc.jpg

[Jeff]

Here's the Ring Nebula photo that I'm most proud of.
http://www.seivertfamily.com/IMG_1376.jpg

[Celestron]

Great shots Steve ! Really like that Eskimo !

Very nice shot Jeff !

[Jason Rickerby]

http://www.pbase.com/jmrickerby/image/99602625/large.jpg

Single 3 minute exposure at ISO 400
Canon 20D, SkyWatcher Equinox 80mm, Losmandy GM-8 Gemini

[Nighthound]

Great shots Jeff and Jason.

Thanks Ron. I"d love to shoot it with a 14" SCT for some nice scale.

[Celestron]

Thanks Ron. I"d love to shoot it with a 14" SCT for some nice scale.

WOW..... , 14" ? That would be extremely closeup and personal !

[RadAL]

I could never get these kinds of shots, lack of equipment and huge city :(

but love looking at others.