Skywatchers Adam Block and Tim Puckett patiently built this view of a
region in the Cone Nebula over three months
Skywatchers
Adam Block and Tim Puckett patiently built this view of a region in the Cone Nebula
over three months.
Block and
Puckett used their Televue 127is telescope and its Apogee U9000 camera to build
this view of the IC 2169 region in the Cone Nebula. It took more than 31 hours between
January and March 2007 to observe the area and integrate this image, the
skywatchers said.
“Though
only a 5 inch telescope, it is pretty cool what kind of details can be detected
with long enough exposures,” Block told SPACE.com, adding that this view is an
H-alpha blended image.
The Cone
Nebula sits some 2,500 light-years from Earth.
-- Tariq Malik
Credit: Adam Block and Tim Puckett
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