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Harshwardhan Pathak
El Sauce Observatory, Chile
11/08/2023
08:01 pm

Equipment Details:

Telescope: Planewave CDK24
Camera: QHY 600M Pro
Filters: Astrodon LRGB
Mount: Mathis MI-1000/1250

Post-processing Details:

Processed in Pixinsight & Adobe Photoshop

Image Details:

I captured the least photographed object. The Hind Nebula (Herbig-Haro object), a prototypical example is the variable star T Tauri, visible as the bright orange star near the image center. The orange star centered in this remarkable telescopic skyview is T Tauri, the prototype of the class of T Tauri variable stars. Surrounding T Tauri is a dusty yellow cosmic cloud named the Hind's Variable Nebula (NGC 1555/1554). Over 400 light-years away, at the edge of a molecular cloud, both stars and nebula are seen to vary significantly in brightness but not necessarily at the same time, adding to the mystery of the intriguing region. T Tauri stars are now generally recognized as young -- less than a few million years old -- sun-like stars still in the early stages of formation. This was of about 9 Hours 45 minutes.