The Spaghetti Nebula, a new image by the IAC’s remote astrograph
The Spaghetti Nebula, a new image by the IAC’s remote astrograph
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Daniel López
Description
Image of Simeis 147 (also known as Sharpless 2-240 and by the popular name of the Spaghetti Nebula), taken with the remote astrograph of the Unit for Communication and Scientific Culture (UC3) of the IAC, which is at the Teide Observatory (Izaña, Tenerife). It is a long exposure image (8 hours in each of the narrow filters: H-alpha / red, SII / green and OIII / blue) which has been given the actual color of the stars thanks to the use of three broadband filters (R: red, G: green, B: blue), with total exposures of an hour and a half in each of them. The image shows simultaneously very weak regions next to other more brilliant ones. The color shown corresponds approximately to what we would see with our eyes if they were extraordinarily sensitive. Credit: Daniel López / IAC.