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neufer
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by neufer » Mon May 30, 2016 11:00 am
FLPhotoCatcher wrote:
I notice that no one here has mentioned that the halo is hexagon shaped. How could that have happened?
![Arrow :arrow:](./images/smilies/icon_arrow.gif)
There is a suggestion of hexagonal symmetry in the inner
Cat's Eye as well. They are probably related to each other.
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Ann
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by Ann » Mon May 30, 2016 12:51 pm
neufer wrote:FLPhotoCatcher wrote:
I notice that no one here has mentioned that the halo is hexagon shaped. How could that have happened?
![Arrow :arrow:](./images/smilies/icon_arrow.gif)
There is a suggestion of hexagonal symmetry in the inner
Cat's Eye as well. They are probably related to each other.
Collimated outflows?
Ann
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Josh Smith
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by Josh Smith » Tue May 31, 2016 2:29 pm
Thanks for those examples! PN and the outer halos are my favorite targets. So much going on in them and a lot to learn about them as well as opportunities to help advance their understanding. Good to see a couple of examples with outer halos I wasn't aware of. I may have to spend a while on the Saturn one as I didn't realize there was a halo there. Very, very few examples of that out there.
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by Josh Smith » Tue May 31, 2016 2:31 pm
Would be nice to know of some more Northern targets that need to be examined more closely too!
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starsurfer
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by starsurfer » Thu Jun 02, 2016 5:52 pm
Josh Smith wrote:
Thanks for those examples! PN and the outer halos are my favorite targets. So much going on in them and a lot to learn about them as well as opportunities to help advance their understanding. Good to see a couple of examples with outer halos I wasn't aware of. I may have to spend a while on the Saturn one as I didn't realize there was a halo there. Very, very few examples of that out there.
There are lots of haloes out there but the majority of amateurs are unaware of them except PN obsessives. The one around the Saturn Nebula was discovered in 1998, see
here. The CHART32 image might be the first amateur one to show it.
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by starsurfer » Thu Jun 02, 2016 5:54 pm
Josh Smith wrote:Would be nice to know of some more Northern targets that need to be examined more closely too!
There are a few mostly unknown haloes around northern PN but not as many as southern ones. The fairly recent
IPHAS hydrogen alpha survey of the northern galactic plane was completed a few years ago, so I guess if someone went through the data, some new and unknown haloes could be discovered. I don't know of anyone working on this area.