Adam Block's Latest View of the Universe:
LDN 1357 (Helping Hand Nebula)
December 2024
RELEASED 2025-01-28
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The video below explains the interesting nature of RZ Cass which is the bright star to the bottom left in the image above. RZ Cass is an eclipsing binary! This snippet is taken from one of my processing videos. You can see it vary in brightness.
- Optics Pomenis Astrograph (Takahashi E-180 - Epsilon f2.8 180mm ED)
- Camera QHY600 3.6um 9600x6422 pixels
- Filters AstroDon Gen II
- Date December 2024
- Location Mount Lemmon SkyCenter, Arizona
- Exposures RGB = 17 : 17 : 17 hours
- Acquisition MYT Paramount, TheSkyX, ACP (DC3 Dreams), Maxim DL (Cyanogen)
- Processing Pixinsight
- Credit Line & Copyright Adam Block /Steward Observatory/University of Arizona