the spaghetti nebula [View all]

[moonshinegnomie]

i used a telescope.live remote scope in spain for the data and then processed it in pixinsight (the software i use for astro work) and photoshop

6 hours of data using hydrogen,sulfur and oxygen to bring out different details in the nebula and then i combined the 3 sets of data into whats called the SHO pallet which is what the hubble uses. basically sulfur gets mapped to red,hydrogen to green and oxygen to blue

the actual nebula is about 3000 light years away. it was formed when a masive star went supernova about 40,000 years ago. the nebula is lit from the remnants of the star that exploded,which is now a neutron star about the mass of teh sun but only about 10 miles in diameter.