took a break form my political rage to use a telescope on teh crab nebula

[moonshinegnomie]

The Crab Nebula also known as M1 .
In 1054 Native American and Chinese astronomers recorded seeing a new star in the sky. It was actually a star going supernova. The star is about 6500 light years from earth. In 1928 a US astronomer named edwin hubble (same guy teh telescope is named for) connected a nebula he observed to teh supernova.

Astronomers have since discovered teh remains of teh star that blew up as a rapidly rotating neutron star called a pulsar. It rotates about 30 times second. . The neutron star itself is only about 15 miles or so in diameter but has a mass of 1.5-2.5 the sun
this is 5 hours of exposure in my backyard

[Permanut]

1. Nicely done..

Star is rotating 30 times per second - about the same as the engine in my Toyota when I'm going 60 mph.

[Deuxcents]

7. Wow..when you put it in that perspective..

[hedda_foil]

2. Holy crab!

[brer cat]

3. Very nice shot, moonshine!

[SheltieLover]

4. Amazing!

TY for sharing!

[FemDemERA]

5. Beautiful.

Thank you for sharing. We need a little beauty in our lives right now.

[moonshinegnomie]

6. setting up to shoot again tonight. havent decided my target yet