Actually, I just wanted to capture the spectrum of WR 124 with a bit of star background. However, since the small surrounding nebula was already quite visible in the single lights, I thought I'd give it a try and capture this rarely imaged object properly. I am very surprised at how many details of the tiny nebula emerged with my equipment. BlurXTerminator also did an excellent job here.
WR 124 (Hen 2-427) is a rare Wolf–Rayet star of spectral type WN8 in the constellation Sagitta with a surface temperature of 35,000 K. The star, more than 10,000 light-years away from Earth, has an apparent magnitude of 11.2. The extreme stellar wind emanating from it has been driving its envelope away at high speed for about 10,000 years, creating a circumstellar nebula around it known as M1-67.
M1-67 is expanding at a rate of over 150,000 km/h and is nearly 6 light-years across. M1-67 has little internal structure, though large clumps of material have been detected, some of which have 30 times the mass of Earth and stretch out up to 150 billion km.
- Rev B an upscaled crop for the mouse-hover
- Rev C the full field in 1:1 resolution
- Rev D Hubble version for comparison
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