The Crab Nebula is cataloged as M1, the first object on Charles Messier's famous 18th century list of things which are not comets. In fact, the Crab is now known to be a supernova remnant, debris from the death explosion of a massive star, witnessed by astronomers in the year 1054. One of the most exotic objects known to modern astronomers, the Crab Pulsar, a neutron star spinning 30 times a second, is visible as a bright spot near the nebula's center. Like a cosmic dynamo, this collapsed remnant of the stellar core powers the Crab's emission across the electromagnetic spectrum. Spanning about 12 light-years, the Crab Nebula is a mere 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. Source: NASA.gov.
The Rooster Inn Observatory resides in Bortle 4 country in Upstate New York, and provides LIVE video streaming of astrophotography of sun and moon, stars and planets, galaxies and nebulae, comets and satellites. Three telescopes make up the observatory:
1- Celestron Edge HD 11-inch Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope (CST) on a CGX equatorial mount with a ZWO ASI183MC camera for planetary imaging;
2- Vaonis Stellina Telescope for Deep Space Objects (DSO);
3- Lunt LS50T H-alpha solar telescope with B400 blocking filter with ZWO ASI120MC-S camera on a Sky Watcher AZ-GTi mount;
4- Canon EOS 50D with 250mm lens on a Celestron NexStar 8SE mount for lazy imaging.
German Shepherd+ Primadonna and Belgian Malinois Belladonna guard the Rooster Inn and supply voice-overs.
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