GAMMA VELORUM
GAMMA VELORUM
This is a quadruple star system in the constellation Vela. Two of its components are a blue supergiant and a Wolf-Rayet star. The WR is Very luminous and exhausting its hydrogen supplies quickly, on its way to a death in a supernova explosion. In the lower right, between the nebulosity is the open cluster NGC2547. Filamentous strands from a part of the supernova remnant that exploded about 12,000 years ago, are visible throughout.
SPECIFICATIONS
Telescope
AUS-2 Takahashi FSQ-106ED
Camera
FLI PL16803
Location
Heaven's Mirror Observatory, Australia
Date of observation
Dec 30-31, 2022
Filters
H alpha, SII, OIII
Processing
PixInsight, StarXterminator, Photoshop, Topaz DeNoise
Credits
Ken Abremski / Telescope Live
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