2. Astronomy

NIGHT OVER ONTARIO

These photos were taken by Lynn Hilborn of Grafton, Ontario.
Pictures have appeared on the cover and inside editions of SkyNews magazine and in Sky & Telescope and Astronomy magazine, and as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day.

“ Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,”
W.B.Yeats



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Thors Helmet...NGC2359. Taken with TEC140@f7 and ML8300. RGB with Ha all 2x2 bin (5x5mRGB and 5x15m Ha.)<br /> Taken by Lynn Hilborn, March 2011 at WhistleStop Obs, Grafton, Ontario.
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Thors Helmet...NGC2359. Taken with TEC140@f7 and ML8300. RGB with Ha all 2x2 bin (5x5mRGB and 5x15m Ha.)
Taken by Lynn Hilborn, March 2011 at WhistleStop Obs, Grafton, Ontario.

  • The cover story of the July edition of Sky and Telescope is about the finding of the Soap Bubble nebula by an amateur astronomer. Page 34 of the magazine had a picture which was almost the same field of view to one I took last September. Above is my September shot and buried in the bottom left quadrant is this elusive object...boy is it faint. NP101is telescope and ML8300 camera. Exposure 14x15m in Ha.
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  • Color version...LRGB 50m 15m 15m 20m 3x3 bin<br /> Double Quasar 0957+561 - an example of gravitational lensing...(best viewed as Original)<br /> Gravitational lensing was long predicted by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity - if gravity can be properly viewed as a bending of space produced by mass, then light rays should change their direction upon passing a massive object. In extreme cases, we might expect to see multiple images of the same object, formed by light that has gone around opposite sides of the intervening mass. The first examples of such lensing involved quasars, as the brightest objects seen at large distances. This quasar was the first confirmed lensing case, the double quasar 0957+561. It was found while searching for counterparts of radio sources, when two candidates showed up only 6 arcseconds apart (altered text from Wikipedia). <br /> The picture was taken at Grafton, Ontario with C9.25 and ML8300 camera, by Lynn Hilborn, May 2010
  • Leo Trio...M65, M66, NGC 3628 interacting galaxies in Leo. Taken with NP101is and FLI ML8300 camera. RGB 5mx6 each, Lum 10mx9. All binned 1x1. Taken by Lynn Hilborn, Grafton, Ontario, April 4 and 5, 2010.
  • The Sunflower galaxy (M63). Taken by Lynn Hilborn,Grafton, Ontario on April 19, 2010. NP 101is and ML8300 camera. L 120m RGB 40m each, all binned 1x1.
  • Milky way over Lake Ontario at our house...20 minute exposure with Canon Xs modded and 50mm lens at f4.0
  • Moon, January 21..in Ha 4/100th of a second...C9.25 and Ml8300 camera. Lynn Hilborn, WhistleStop Obs, Grafton, Ontario
  • North American nebula and the Pelican nebula HaRGB Ha 16x900s, RGB 4x300s each. NP101is @f4.3, ML8300 at -35C<br /> Taken by Lynn Hilborn, WhistleStop Obs, Nov,2009
  • IC1396 at f4.3 HaRGB with NP101is and ML8300 camera. Taken Nov 6, 2009 by Lynn Hilborn, WhistleStop Obs,Grafton, Ontario
  • Vdb 141 The Cosmic Surfers. C9.25 @ f6.3 and ML8300 camera. LRGB l 7x15m + 5x10m 1x1 bin, RGB 3x10m each 2x2 bin<br /> Taken Oct 25 and Nov 8,2009 at WhistleStop Obs by Lynn Hilborn
  • M81 M 82 in HaLRGB . Taken by Lynn Hilborn, WhistleStop Obs, Grafton, Ontario. December 2009. ML8300 and NP101is.<br /> at 540mm fl. 1 hour of Ha 2 hours of Lum. both 1x1 bin...RGB at 6x5m each at 2x2 bin. Reprocessed January 2011.
  • PG 1634+706 is a Quasar that is almost 9 Billion Light Years away !!<br /> If you were on this quasar and tried to take a picture of the earth .... we don't exist yet !<br /> Our light has only travelled about 4.5 billion light years...the age of the earth....<br /> Photo taken with C9.25 telescope and ST2000 camera, by Lynn Hilborn, Grafton, Ontario
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  • Sunspots...new camera Canon 60D modified and C9.25 SCT.<br /> Lynn Hilborn, Grafton,Ontario...taken Friday, May 11, 2012.
  • Thors Helmet...NGC2359. Taken with TEC140@f7 and ML8300. RGB with Ha all 2x2 bin (5x5mRGB and 5x15m Ha.)<br /> Taken by Lynn Hilborn, March 2011 at WhistleStop Obs, Grafton, Ontario.
  • M13 Globular Cluster 10x4m Lum bin 1x1, 5x5m RGB bin 2x2. TEC 140@f7 and ML8300 camera. Taken by Lynn Hilborn,WhistleStop Obs, Grafton, Ontario. June 2 and 3, 2011.
  • Crescent Nebula in Narrowband using Hubble mix SII Ha OIII for RGB. Bin 1x1 HA 4x30m, OIII 6x30m, SII 3X30m.<br /> TEC 140 @ f5.6 and FLI ML8300 camera.<br /> Taken by Lynn Hilborn, WhistleStop Obs, Grafton,Ontario August 11 and 29, 2011
  • M101, Pinwheel Galaxy with Super Nova...combine of March 25.2011 image plus Super Nova taken August 29,2011.<br /> TEC 140 2 f5.6 with FLI ML8300 camera, L 9x10m, RGB each 5x10m, Ha 9x20m, all binned 1x1.<br /> Taken by Lynn Hilborn, WhistleStop Obs, Grafton, Ontario.
  • Aurora at Grafton, Oct 24.2011 f4.5 18mm 1600 iso 45 sec.
  • Simeis 147 (SH2-240) Natural colour representation. Supernova remnant taken by Lynn Hilborn, WhistleStop Observatory, Grafton, Ontario. Lens- Tokina f2.8 300mm, camera- FLI ML8300 using Baader narrowband filters. Ha 11x30minutes 1x1, OIII 11x30minutes 3x3, SII 6x30minutes 2x2. Total 14 hours exposure. Image taken Nov 21, 23, 30 and Dec 02, 2011.<br /> <br /> It's easy to get lost following the intricate filaments in this image of faint supernova remnant Simeis 147. Also cataloged as Sh2-240 and seen towards the constellation Taurus, it covers nearly 3 degrees (6 full moons) on the sky. That corresponds to a width of 150 light-years at the stellar debris cloud's estimated distance of 3,000 light-years. The composite includes image data taken through narrow-band filters to highlight emission from hydrogen and oxygen atoms tracing regions of shocked, glowing gas. This supernova remnant has an estimated age of about 40,000 years - meaning light from the massive stellar explosion first reached Earth 40,000 years ago. But this expanding remnant is not the only aftermath. The cosmic catastrophe also left behind a spinning neutron star or pulsar, all that remains of the original star's core. (Text from APOD)
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