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McNeil's Nebula in Messier 78
In these images we compare a colour picture of the Messier 78 region taken in 2006 with the 4-metre Mayall telescope at Kitt Peak, Arizona (below) with a new image that was captured using the Wide Field Imager camera on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory, Chile (above). The bright, but highly variable, fan-shaped structure, a feature first spotted by amateur astronomer Jay McNeil in early 2004, is almost completely invisible in the older image but very prominent in the new picture.
Credit:
ESO/T. A. Rector/University of Alaska Anchorage, H. Schweiker/WIYN and NOAO/AURA/NSF and Igor Chekalin
About the Image
| Id: | eso1105d |
| Type: | Collage |
| Release date: | 16 February 2011, 12:00 |
| Related releases: | eso1105 |
| Size: | 619 x 712 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Messier 78 |
| Type: | • Milky Way : Nebula : Appearance : Reflection • X - Nebulae |
| Distance: | 1400 light years |
Colours & filters
| Band | Telescope |
| Optical B |
MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope WFI |
| Optical V |
MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope WFI |
| Optical R |
MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope WFI |
| Optical H-alpha |
MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope WFI |
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