Tulip nebula (SH2-101): With better seeing conditions, I gathered another 20 x 5 min SHO subs of the Tulip nebula to add to data collected at Fairwood last Saturday and integrated them to give around 2.4 hours worth of SHO data which was gathered with an ASI 533MM Pro camera attached to an Altair 60 EDF doublet refractor. Data was captured in NINA and processed in Pixinsight/Adobe Photoshop 2024. The Tulip nebula is an emission nebula located in Cygnus and is so called as part of it resembles the outline of a Tulip.
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The Tulip nebula
T CrB (Blaze Star): I took just 10 x 60s mono images of a region of Corona Borealis to get a luminosity reading of a T CrB in its current dormant state as this star is due to outburst in the near future as it is a recurrent nova with a period of around 80 years. I have marked the star towards the centre of the frame which at present looks comparable to other 10th magnitude stars in this constellation. This will serve as a "before" reference shot to compare it to one I hope to image when it gets as bright as the star to the lower left of the frame when the star finally does start to blaze away when it goes nova, as last happened in 1946.
The Blaze star
Chris Bowden
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