WR134, featuring “The Eye in the Sky" (Francesco Meschia)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: KT Cyg · LBN 182 · NGC 6883 · RY Cyg · V0425 Cyg · V0428 Cyg · V0429 Cyg · V0430 Cyg · V1042 Cyg · V1475 Cyg · V1477 Cyg · V1487 Cyg · V1769 Cyg · V2274 Cyg · V2523 Cyg

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WR134, featuring “The Eye in the Sky"

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WR134, featuring “The Eye in the Sky"

WR 134 is a variable Wolf-Rayet star located around 6,000 light years away from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus, surrounded by a faint bubble nebula blown by the intense radiation and fast wind from the star. It is five times the radius of the sun, but due to a temperature over 63,000 K it is 400,000 times as luminous as the Sun. [source: Wikipedia]

For this image I captured over 40 hours of narrowband SHO data. The “Eye in the Sky” is visible in OIII only, with Ha recording the shock front in the northwestern part of the ring as well as the bulk of the interstellar medium. SII only recorded a bit of the interstellar medium clouds, I used it mostly to give better balance to the star colors.

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RA (center)	20h10m14s.10
RA (top/left)	20h13m25s.31
RA (top/right)	20h06m58s.95
RA (bottom/right)	20h07m05s.37
RA (bottom/left)	20h13m27s.10

Dec (center)	+36°10′46″.1
Dec (top/left)	+36°40′13″.2
Dec (top/right)	+36°39′05″.8
Dec (bottom/right)	+35°40′58″.4
Dec (bottom/left)	+35°42′03″.10

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