The Skull Nebula, in Time for Halloween

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The Skull Nebula, in Time for Halloween

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Here is the infamous Skull Nebula, AKA the Pac-Man nebula. about 1,600 light years from Earth. The central star is a white dwarf. I snagged the image on a 27inch Planewave, located at iTelescope in Siding Springs, Australia. 1.2 hours of imaging time, divided equally among R, G and B, binned 1X1. The subs were stacked and aligned in PixInsight, everything else was in StarTools, except for a tiny bit of cleanup in my new favorite general purpose processing program, Affinity Photo.
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Re: The Skull Nebula, in Time for Halloween

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Rotate it ~ 80degs clock wise and the skull is looking at you straight - wonderful image!

:occasion-happyhalloween:
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Re: The Skull Nebula, in Time for Halloween

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Of course! Check out this more ghoulish version.
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Perfect! :thumbsup:
Sometimes it's a mystery to me why objects are named the way they are, but I love it when someone nails it - like you did here - and you can clearly see where people were getting at when they came up with the name. :D
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Re: The Skull Nebula, in Time for Halloween

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Nice work. The Pacman Nebula is actually NGC 281.
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