Observation by Des Middlemass: The beautiful Embryo nebula

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Des Middlemass

Observer

Des Middlemass

Observed

2026 Oct 18 - 00:00

Uploaded

2026 Oct 20 - 09:59

Objects

NGC1333

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Constellation

Perseus

Field centre

RA: 03^h28^m
Dec: +31°22'
Position angle: -1°53'

Field size

0°26' × 0°18'

Equipment

Celestron Edge HD 9.25 2350mm
UVIR filter

Exposure

5.5 hours (5 min subs)

Location

Villetoureix, France (Bortle 4)

Target name

The Embryo nebula

Title

The beautiful Embryo nebula

About this image

A very active stellar nursery with many Herbig-Haro objects.

I think this is a stunning object and I would really like to go deeper on the imaging to bring out more detail.

Files associated with this observation

NGC1333_Embryo_nebula_2320mm_UVIR_5pt5hrs.jpg (724.7 kB)

Like this image

Callum Potter, Callum Wingrove, Andy Wilson, Graham Winstanley, Richard Sargent

Comments

Richard Sargent, 2026 Oct 20 - 18:56 UTC

Excellent image Des and well done for devoting 5.5 hours exposure time to it. The fan shaped nebula towards the lower right of the image is on the Deep Sky section's list of variable nebula, so of particular interest to myself. The variability is caused by brightness changes to one of the two stars (HBC 340 & 341) that you can see at the bottom of the fan. Trouble is they haven't changed significantly in brightness over the last few years, but we keep checking.

Richard

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