Messier 27 - (The Dumbell Nebula) Region
 
The Dumbell Nebula (Messier 27). Click on the image or here for a larger version.

Although the distance to Messier 27 is a shell of material that is believed to have been ejected from a star 3,000 - 4,000 years ago. More information about this nebula can be found here.


Recording system: Canon 350D Digital Camera.
Exposure time: Three images stacked; average exposure time 3 minutes.
Telescope: 10-inch Newtonian; manually guided image.
 
The region around the Dumbell Nebula (Messier 27). Click on the image or here for a larger version.


Recording medium: Fuji ISO 400 35mm Sensia film
Exposure time: 40 minutes
Telescope: 80mm Orion Short-Tube
Configuration: 80mm scope piggybacked on a 10-inch Newtonian - Orion Atlas mount; Newtonian used as a guidescope with 12.5mm reticle eyepiece and 2x Barlow lens.
 

An image of the M27 region with a coordinate grid superimposed using the Aladin web-based application

 

A map of the region generated using Cartes du Ciel software with the wide-field image superimposed

 

An image generated with Aladin showing objects from the Hubble Guide Star Catalog 2.3 superimposed. GSC 2.3 catalog data was used to calibrate the image coordinates.

 
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