rigid crater
Starting a new project while your other projects sit unfinished? That's a paddlin'.
Anyway, after spending entirely too much time not doing astronomy on account of my home's absurd weather patterns there was finally a good opportunity to image yesterday! One of the targets I picked out was a new kind of object for me, a Herbig–Haro object. This one in particular sits just south of NGC1999, close enough that if you've ever taken an image of it that includes the surrounding nebulosity you probably also captured HH1/2 as well.
These objects are jets of light and matter ejected form the poles of very young stars; so the star itself is still embedded in the nebula from which it was born and therefor hidden behind dust at visible wavelengths. If this image were taken in the mid infrared, the central star would likely be the brightest in frame.
I didn't end up with as much exposure as I had hoped due to the cold effecting some of my camera batteries adversely. This is going to be a target I come back to over the next few months (weather permitting).
Technical details:
1 hr 23 min as 1 minute subs with a Canon 7D II
OTA is a Meade LX200, 16" (406.4mm) aperture, 4064mm native focal length
This was used with a 0.8x focal reducer for an effective focal length of ~3250mm and a focal ratio of 8
The image was cropped to get rid of some abberations near the edge of the frame
thick sinew
molten aspen
haughty beacon