Name: NGC 7635
    Other names: Bubble Nebula
    Description: Diffuse Nebula
    Ascension: 23h20.7
    Declanation: +61°12'
    Apparent diameter: 15*8 (arc min)
    Constellation: Cassiopeia
    Magnitude: 11
    Distance: 11000 light years
    Equipment: Meade ETX90+sc3 icx424 camera f-0.3
    Date / Time UTC: 21 october 2004 19:40
    Stacked : 52 0f 110
    Exposure time: 30 s
    Location:

    The Hague, The Netherlands

    Other info:

    Had to stop recording. Incoming clouds.

    The almost round 'bubble" in this photo is caused by fast stellar "wind" from a central star, known as BD+602522, impacting sparser areas of hydrogen gas and pushing them into a spherical shell.  The star's radiation then causes the shell to glow.

    Did some Photoshop enhancing

     

    © Job Gehéniau

    http://www.jgeheniau.nl/etx90/astronomy2.html

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