M 1 (NGC 1952) Bright Nebula (Supernova Remnant) in Taurus

Located at: RA 05 hours 34 minutes 32 seconds, Dec +22 degrees 01 minutes 00 seconds

Size: 6.0' x 4.0'; Magnitude: 7.4; Class: (Sharpless) 2 3 3

North is up

West to the right

Telescope:

 8" f5 Newtonian reflector

Camera:

 ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -20c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56

Image:

Lumicon Deep Sky filter, 240 minutes (24 x 10 minute subs) 02/10/11/2007; seeing 2.7-3.4 FWHM per CCDStack

Processing:

CCDStack 1.3.2, Photoshop 7.0

Location:

 Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s)

Notes:

This object is a little small to show good detail at 1000mm focal length. I tried re-sampling the image to double the size, but I though it better to keep the same image scale / field of view for most of the images ... to better compare the actual angular sizes of the various objects as imaged with the 8" f5 Newtonian. This image replaces a 90 minute unfiltered Track & Accumulate image from 01/07/2006