The Gem Cluster - NGC 3293 is a very young cluster with an estimated age of 10 million years and was one of Abbe Lacaille's discoveries. Most of the stars are hot, blue bright stars although the brightest is a magnitude 6.5 red giant.
NGC 3199 is the wind-blown partial "ring" around a Wolf-Rayet star.
NGC 3324 is also called the Gabriela Mistral nebula because of the striking resemblance to the Nobel Prize winning Chilean poet.
Gum 32 is a ring nebula ionised by the O8V star LSS 1887.
This image was created by median combining 5 x 120 second Hydrogen Alpha images, binned 2 by 2, taken using a remotely controlled telescope in Australia - while sitting in my study in Daventry, England.
Martin Nicholson - Daventry, United Kingdom.
This page was last updated on February 3rd 2011.