Messier 76 (also known as M76, the Little Dumbbell Nebula or NGC650/651) is a planetary nebula in the constellation Perseus.
This nebula was discovered by the French astronomer Pierre Méchain in 1780, and was included in the Charles Messier's catalogue of comet-like objects as number 76 as a double nebula without stars (for this reason, it was also catalogued as ,…Read more
HAT-P-16b is a gas giant exoplanet orbiting HAT-P-16, an F- type star with an apparent magnitude of 10.9 and a size close to that of our Sun (Mass = 1.22 Msun, Radius = 1.24 Rsun).
Located in the constellation Andromeda, it is 739 light-years away from us and takes only 2.8 days to complete one orbit around its star. Its discovery was announced in 2010.
Its mass is 4.19 times that of Jupiter, and the distance to its star is 0.0413 AU.
Transit taken remotely on 14/09/2024 (with Moon at 85%) with TOA-150 telescope and STL-11000M camera (110 120-second exposures).
This nebula, popularly known as Valentine Rose Nebula, has both Sh2-174 and PK 120+18.1 as catalogue designations.
It is therefore an unusual object: the fact that an object shares…Read moreIC 1396 is a large and fascinating gas ionized region in constellation Cepheus, 3000 light years from Earth. Among the intriguing dark structures in the interior of IC1396, the Elephant's Trunk Nebula certainly stands out.
The nebula is so named because of …Read more
In my last image of M16, I decided to present it in a version without stars to focus attention on the "Pillars of Creation". To arrive to the starless version I used in this image, StarXTerminator from Russell Croman.
Two years ago, I made some kind of comparison between StarNet2 and StarXTerminator …Read more,
It is a bit unclear for me why, in so many years of imaging, never tried M16 the Eagle Nebula. Maybe the only reason is that there are so many interesting targets and the limitation of time...
Anyway, this season I decided to image it and I devoted three nights to gather data…Read more,
