"Hubble's Variable nebula" - NGC 2261 - in Monoceros

New Discoveries R Mon Orion Short Projects

The telescope used for these 120 second V band exposures is a Takahashi Epsilon 250mm F/3.8 astrograph with a ST-8XE CCD camera mounted on a Paramount GT1100ME mount.

December 4th 2005


October 2nd 2006


September 19th 2007


October 8th 2007 - An animation of median combined images (5 x 120 seconds) using R, V and I filters

Click here to see an animation produced by Tom Polakis

The disappearing star at 06 38 35.3 +08 59 41.9 is the Mira variable RZ Mon with a spectral type of M6



Click here for a review of the strengths and weaknesses of the Global Rent-A-Scope operation.

Martin Nicholson - Daventry, United Kingdom.

This page was last updated on April 25th 2009.