January 24, 2017
Tonight I tried for one of the toughest targets in the sky, the Spaghetti Nebula. This is a very faint but large (it takes up nearly 3 degrees of space) supernova remnant between Taurus and Auriga. I wasn't even sure if I had it in the frame until I stacked and processed 80 one-minute exposures. It was pretty exciting to see it come out of the dark as I processed. I need to take more images of this nebula to get better detail. The Spaghetti Nebula is in the lower right, upper right is the star Alnath (or El Nath). In the center left is the star cluster M37. This region points to the anticenter of our Milky Way Galaxy. Read more at this LINK.
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