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Friday, April 20, 2012

Awesome!


One night I was just stargazing with my new scope, and right at the corner of my vision I 'see' this blueish dot coming in and out of my view.  I trained my scope to the apparent area FOV (field of view) and tried looking to the sides of this object and by the time I did that, my eyes had adjusted to the darkness. And lo and behold!! I saw my first Nebula called the Ghost of Jupiter - or scientifically called NGC 3242.

Ghost of Jupiter
Taken by 4" Nexstar 4SE Schmidt-Cassegrain computerised telescope - Celestron
Neximage USB camera.  This is what I see through the lens. 


This planetary nebula NGC 3242 is most frequently called the Ghost of Jupiter, or Jupiter's Ghost, but it is also sometimes called the Eye Nebula. It can easily be observed with amateur telescopes, and appears bluish-green to most observers. Larger telescopes can distinguish the outer halo as well.[3]



This is what the nebula supposed to look like, taken from a 16" hypergraph telescope.  
Be reminded that mine is only a 4" telescope!




And this is what it looks like taken from Hubble Space Telescope


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