Friday, October 29, 2010
M27 or Dumbell Nebula
Images were taken on October 28, 2010, from my back yard observatory with an RCX400 10 inch telescope using an SBIG ST2000XCM single shot color CCD. Two 8 min images were processed and stacked. M27 is a gas bubble ejected from a star at the end of its life. The gas is glowing from UV light emitted by the star. M27 is around 1000 light years distant.
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