Starfront Observatories Astronomical Image Gallery
This gallery features images acquired by me with my equipment at the Starfront Observatories in Coleman, TX. For more on the observatory and my experience in preparing the equipment, delivering the equipment, and accessing the equipment remotely, please see the Video Library page for 3 unique videos covering that topic.
Helix Nebula - The Eye of God (NGC 7293)
One of the advantages to imaging from Starfront is gaining access to southern objects I would have difficulty imaging from my home dark sky sites. Now, the Helix does rise above my horizon here at 38° north, but I cannot access it from my backyard due to the hills and trees. So, I would need to go to my remote locations and I have never been able to sync up clear skies that far south with a trip to my dark sky locations.
That made Helix one of my primary targets once the system was up and running at Starfront.
Some interesting tidbits on the Helix nebula
closest bright planetary nebula at just 650-700 light-years away
despite it’s appearance from Earth, it is a complex prolate spheroid or elongated bubble
it contains thousands of planetary knots (~40,000) blob-like structures. Each knot is roughly the size of our solar system
this nebula offers a preview of what our Sun might look like in ~5 billion years
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