Thanks for riding along these past few weeks as we 'voyaged' back in time and celebrated 45 years of Voyager! For the rest of time, the Voyagers will continue orbiting around the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, with our sun but a tiny point of light among many.✨
Photo 1: Voyager Encapsulation - The Voyager 2 spacecraft, which was the first of the two Voyagers to launch, is seen at the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility-1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft was put into this shroud on August 2, 1977, to protect it during flight through the atmosphere.
Photo 2: Mementos of Earth – as the two Voyager spacecraft travel out into deep space, they carry a small American flag and a Golden Record packed with pictures and sounds – mementos of our home planet. This picture shows John Casani, Voyager project manager in 1977.
Photo 3: Voyager 1’s 8-track digital tape recorder
Photo 4: Jupiter’s Great Red Spot – Taken by Voyager 1 from a distance of 2.7 million miles (4.3 million kilometers). The great red spot is three times as large as Earth!
Photo 5: Saturn and three moons taken by Voyager 2
Photo 6: Farewell shot of crescent of Uranus taken by Voyager 2
Photo 7: Detail of Neptune’s rings - This wide-angle Voyager 2 image, taken through the camera's clear filter, is the first to show Neptune's rings in detail.
Photo 8: Earth as ‘Pale Blue Dot’ - part of the first ever 'portrait' of the solar system taken by Voyager 1. From Voyager's great distance Earth is a mere point of light, less than the size of a picture element even in the narrow-angle camera.
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WR 134 is a variable Wolf-Rayet star located around 6,000 light years away from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus, surrounded by a faint bubble nebula blown by the intense radiation and fast wind from the star. It is five times the radius of the sun, but due to a temperature over 63,000 K it is 400,000 times as luminous as the Sun.
WR 134 was one of three stars in Cygnus observed in 1867 to have unusual spectra consisting of intense emission lines rather than the more normal continuum and absorption lines. These were the first members of the class of stars that came to be called Wolf-Rayet stars (WR stars) after Charles Wolf and Georges Rayet who discovered their unusual appearance
Photo: @dainjason
Integration time: 27 hrs Hydrogen, Oxygen and RGB stars (narrowband gain 200, broadband gain 120)
Telescope: Skywatcher Esprit 120 ED APO
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 294MM Pro
Guiding: Starfield 50mm guide scope with ZWO ASI290MM guide camera
Filter: Optolong Ha, Oiii (7/6.5nm) and RGB filters
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6R-Pro
Calibration: Flats and flat darks
Hardware Control: ASIAIR Pro, Pegasus Power Box, ZWO EAF and EFW
Processing: The selected images were pre-processed and processed using Pixinsight.
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WR 134 is a variable Wolf-Rayet star located around 6,000 light years away from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus, surrounded by a faint bubble nebula blown by the intense radiation and fast wind from the star. It is five times the radius of the sun, but due to a temperature over 63,000 K it is 400,000 times as luminous as the Sun.
WR 134 was one of three stars in Cygnus observed in 1867 to have unusual spectra consisting of intense emission lines rather than the more normal continuum and absorption lines. These were the first members of the class of stars that came to be called Wolf-Rayet stars (WR stars) after Charles Wolf and Georges Rayet who discovered their unusual appearance
Photo: @dainjason
Integration time: 27 hrs Hydrogen, Oxygen and RGB stars (narrowband gain 200, broadband gain 120)
Telescope: Skywatcher Esprit 120 ED APO
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 294MM Pro
Guiding: Starfield 50mm guide scope with ZWO ASI290MM guide camera
Filter: Optolong Ha, Oiii (7/6.5nm) and RGB filters
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6R-Pro
Calibration: Flats and flat darks
Hardware Control: ASIAIR Pro, Pegasus Power Box, ZWO EAF and EFW
Processing: The selected images were pre-processed and processed using Pixinsight.
#space#nebula#astro#astrophotography#astrophoto#astrophotographer#spacephotography#cosmos#stars#nightsky#nightphotography#deepsky#deepskyphotography#telescope#narrowband#telescopephotography#spacephotography#spacephotos#nightskyphotography