Month: Feb 2025

The Rosette Nebula

If you look just to the top left of Orion, there’s a small, unassuming, cluster of stars.

It doesn’t look like very much. Even a single, ten second, camera exposure doesn’t reveal a great deal.

However, if you persist in taking photos for about half an hour, and then artificially brighten the result, you get this.

This is the Rosette Nebula. Taken last night, 22 Feb, with my Seestar S50. This description from Wikipedia.

“The cluster and nebula lie at a distance of 5,000 light-years from Earth[6] and measure roughly 130 light years in diameter. The radiation from the young stars excites the atoms in the nebula, causing them to emit radiation themselves producing the emission nebula we see. The mass of the nebula is estimated to be around 10,000 solar masses.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosette_Nebula

The Sky at Night has more information and pictures.

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/astrophotography/nebulae/the-rosette-nebula

Martin Wroe, Writer, Journalist, and oh yes incidentally, Assistant Vicar of St Luke’s Church, Islington

All through the world there are heroes performing extraordinary, everyday tasks. Selflessly devoting themselves to sick or disabled relatives, friends and even strangers. We may not be able to control great events, but there are things we can control around us, and that’s where we can do the most good.

Jesus could control everything but mostly couldn’t be bothered.

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