File:Swirly Crab Nebula (19570369685).png
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[edit]DescriptionSwirly Crab Nebula (19570369685).png |
English: This is the swirly component of the Crab Nebula. Not real colors, but a colorized grayscale image of a single filter. You are probably used to seeing Hubble's version of the Crab as looking like this (click the link). Data from the same survey was used to make that image and my image here, but it is quite radically different, isn't it? This is the difference between a mediumband green filter and the narrowband filters which pick up various emissions.
Can you imagine this shape more as the carapace of a crab, now? This might be a little closer to what it looks like visually through the eyepiece of a telescope (in shape, not color, can't emphasize enough how not-real these colors are). It doesn't have legs or pincers. (It never did look much like a crab even back when William Parsons drew a picture of it, though.) I started working on this mosaic sometime last month. I didn't work on it constantly, but it did take a while. A lot of cosmic rays had to be removed by hand. I lightened some of the empty places around the edges of the nebula. It's a small adjustment to keep your eyes from being distracted by the few hard edges. Data came from the following proposal: An Emission Line Survey of the Crab Nebula All channels: WFPC2 F547M North is up. |
Date | Taken on 7 June 2015, 02:52:31 |
Source | Swirly Crab Nebula |
Author | geckzilla |
Flickr sets InfoField | all astronomy; Hubble Processing |
Flickr tags InfoField | hubble; m1; crabnebula; hst; hla; supernovaremnant; crab; pulsar |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by geckzilla at https://flickr.com/photos/54209675@N00/19570369685. It was reviewed on 27 February 2024 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |
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Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
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Exif version | 2.21 |
Color space | Uncalibrated |
Image width | 4,142 px |
Image height | 3,734 px |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 (Windows) |
Date and time of digitizing | 02:52, 7 June 2015 |
File change date and time | 22:39, 9 July 2015 |
Date metadata was last modified | 22:39, 9 July 2015 |
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Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:58b06cc6-4eb7-a14f-8769-450497429a7d |