Like a giant blue sandworm of Arrakis emerging from a reddish nebular desert, the WR 134 bubble is a faint nebula blown by the intense radiation and wind from the Wolf-Rayet star WR 134. This is a variable star located approximately 6,000 light years away, in the constellation of Cygnus as seen from the Earth. It has over 5 times the radius as our Sun, and due to its surface temperature of 63,000K compared to our Sun’s 5,800K, its overall luminosity is 400,000 times larger.
Captured with approximately 27 hours of data in H-alpha and Oxygen-III, this image was processed using a custom palette that is a combination of the traditional HOO palette as well as a more natural mapping of the respective wavelengths. Because the target is still very late in rising, it took 16 nights across 3 months to get sufficient data.
This is one step along a collaboration between
@C. Jonas Moiel and I on this target where we are shooting for over 60 hours in total with our respective CDK14s at SRO. I've been so excited to process this target for so long now that I couldn't resist posting an intermediate processing of what I had so far.
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