Comments on: Orion, warm and visible

By: Troy

Troy — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 07:03:42 +0000

One thing that I’m curious about with such dramatic astrophotos; would it be possible from any point and perspective in the universe for the human eye to see such a dramatic cascade of colors while looking at the orion nebula? Astronomy needs false color and long exposures but I wonder. In a telescope it is wispy but color is absent. I’ve never been too much of a deep sky guy but a pro leant me a view through his scope at a less conspicous deep sky nebula and it appeared almost to be rendered in pencil.

By: mungascr

mungascr — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:01:53 +0000

In a span of time that’s astronomically short, Betelgeux & Rigel plus the other bright stars that make up Orion will also have gone supernova. Betelgeux along with Eta Carinae is one of the current candidate stars likely to blow up any day (or better yet – night) now.

Far from not watching it then I reckon that’ll make the Orion nebula even more exciting to observe! I’ll have to put it on the schedule for AD 2 million & six!

By: Lab Lemming

Lab Lemming — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:12:10 +0000

posting bug:
Regex ID: 18281 () appears to be an invalid regex string! Please fix it in the Blacklist control panel.
Regex ID: 18369 () appears to be an invalid regex string! Please fix it in the Blacklist control panel.
Regex ID: 18261 () appears to be an invalid regex string! Please fix it in the Blacklist control panel.

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/badastro/domains/badastronomy.com/public_html/bablog/wp-content/plugins/SK2-/sk2_util_class.php:208) in /home/badastro/domains/badastronomy.com/public_html/bablog/wp-comments-post.php on line 55

By: Lab Lemming

Lab Lemming — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:11:24 +0000

Are there any energies at which we can see what’s on the other side of the middle?

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 15:17:49 +0000

Lab: Depends on the EM spectrum we’re using to see with. What’s invisible(blocked) in one part is usually quite visible in another,,,See the most recent post,,,

GAry 7

By: Lab Lemming

Lab Lemming — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:10:46 +0000

Hey Phil,
You call this one of the most active star-forming regions in our galaxy. I was wondering: How much of our own galaxy can we actually see, and how much is obscured by dust or gas or stars or whatever else is out there?

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:26:48 +0000

Ummm, messy and chaotic. My kinda clouds,,,wait, is that an angel???Oh, no, just my glasses are dirty,,,

GAry 7

By: idlemind

idlemind — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 06:52:21 +0000

Nigel,

The best part about seeing the Great Orion Nebula in a telescope is seeing those four blue-white stars suspended in a wispy cloud. All the pretty pictures I see, including this one, show the Trapezium area as this angry plume of light. It’s impossible to see why it’s called the “Trapezium” (for “trapezoid,” the shape formed by the stars) in these photos. But in a telescope, there they are. It’s a sight that has its own magic.

By: Kyle_Carm

Kyle_Carm — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 04:58:30 +0000

Anyone else see Phil’s favorite thing in there. I noticed a little pareidolia in the mid-height right in the green area, looks like the face from “The Scream”

By: Geroge

Geroge — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 04:28:40 +0000

Looks like another beautiful front cover for several magazines. clap, clap

By: jess tauber

jess tauber — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 03:28:01 +0000

So maybe not so brand spanking new, but my vote is for a time trip back to Westerlund I, when IT was pushin’ out stars like a PEZ dispenser. If it has maybe half a million stars within a 6 LY^3 cube, imagine how many were forming in any given century in its heyday.

By: Carey

Carey — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 01:00:14 +0000

A million years? Well, just time for another bath…

By: Melusine

Melusine — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 22:52:58 +0000

Whoa, that’s a space-psychedelic photo…even my co-worker was impressed. I rather like all that color, so thanks, I’ll keep that one. (-8~

By: Nigel Depledge

Nigel Depledge — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 22:39:19 +0000

Oooh! Shiny!

It always looks better in long-exposure pictures – I remember viewing this a few years ago through a friend’s 8″ Newtonian and seeing a little bluey-white cloud.

I’ll make a special note, Phil, to stop viewing this nebula in a million years or so…