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This is M1....The Crab Nebula. It is the result of a supernova...many years ago. It has some very delicate arms inside of a very bright nebulosity.



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That is awesome. I can't even imagine taking a picture like that.

Where do you find it in the sky? I know, I could look it up.

My sky was crystal clear at 5 AM, this morning. I stared and stared at Orion trying to see that other nebula you said is visible to the naked eye. But, my eyes are so bad, I just couldn't see anything but the stars.

Love the pic!

Tim

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Originally posted by ratcheer
That is awesome. I can't even imagine taking a picture like that.

Where do you find it in the sky? I know, I could look it up.

My sky was crystal clear at 5 AM, this morning. I stared and stared at Orion trying to see that other nebula you said is visible to the naked eye. But, my eyes are so bad, I just couldn't see anything but the stars.

Love the pic!

Tim

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Here is some stuff on the Crab Nebula:

RA 5:35; Dec 22:01 (Taurus)

Type: supernova remnant
Distance: 6000 ly
In 1758, Charles Messier found this nebula while hunting for comets. When he noticed that, unlike a comet, it didn't move, he decided to create his now famous catalog (from his point of view a catalog of things that shouldn't be mistaken for comets).
The supernova explosion that created the Crab was seen on about July 4 1054 AD. It was recorded by Chinese astronomers and perhaps others.
The gas is expanding so fast that we can see actual changes by comparing new photographs with those taken early in this century. Notice how much more compact M 1 is than the Vela SNR which is 10 times older.
At the center of the Crab is a pulsar, the neutron star that remains from the original star. Neutron stars are fantastic objects -- just a few kilometers in diameter but with the mass of the Sun and very rapidly rotating (the Crab pulsar rotates 30 times per second, some pulsars ten times faster).

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"Ask and you shall receive." Great info, Bud. Thanks.

Oh, I was looking at the sword, but my eyes are really bad.

Tim

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Originally posted by ratcheer
"Ask and you shall receive." Great info, Bud. Thanks.

Oh, I was looking at the sword, but my eyes are really bad.

Tim

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Tim,

Here is a little map of the sky for the Crab Nebula and Orion...
This will be tomorrow morning...Sep. 30th at about 5:30..looking south:



I hope this helps,

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Actually, I have been seeing it all along and just didn't know it. The Orion Nebula *is* the middle "star" of the sword, which I have been seeing and I just didn't know it was the nebula instead of a star:

"The Orion Nebula is easily visible with the naked eye as the middle star in Orion's "sword". "

http://www.seds.org/billa/twn/n1976x.html

Tim

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