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