Wallpaper author:
Jamie Macdougall
11 Jun 2021
Region around WR102
WR 102 is a Wolf–Rayet star. It is a luminous and very hot star, highly evolved and close to exploding as a supernova (sometime in the next 1500 years). It’s currently shedding matter with ferocious stellar winds - compressing and ionising the surrounding matter. You can see this in the small blue area in the centre of my image above; the typical arcs and bubble type of a Wolf-Rayet Nebula.
Dataset from which the image was processed
WR 102
11 credit
- Type of target............................................................................................................................Emission Nebula
- Camera............................................................................................................................FLI PL16803
- Target coordinates............................................................................................................................RA 266.4481 Dec -26.1741
- Hemisphere............................................................................................................................Southern
- Telescope location............................................................................................................................Australia
- Transient event............................................................................................................................No
- Observed on............................................................................................................................21 Apr 2021 - 06 Oct 2021
Filter | Avg Exp (s) | Total Exposure | Subframes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Halpha | 582 | 5h20m | 33 |
| SII | 600 | 5h30m | 33 |
| OIII | 619 | 5h30m | 32 |