From the comfort of his back garden, one astronomer in Scotland photographed jaw-dropping vistas of nebulas.
Bryan Shaw, 28, spends hours observing the night sky to create magnificent images of distant galaxies and star clusters.
He concentrates his specialist telescope on his far-off targets at his residence in New Cumnock, East Ayrshire.
The Orion Nebula, which is around 1,344 light-years distant from Earth, and the Rosette Nebula, an open star cluster with rose-like cosmic clouds of gas and dust that is more than 5,000 light-years away, are both worth seeing.
According to Daily Mail, the amateur astronomer also obtained other stunning landscape shots. These include aurora, a close-up of our moon, and vistas of galaxies like the Milky Way.
About Orion and Rosette Nebula
Orion is one of the most visible constellations from Earth. It contains some of our sky's brightest stars, including Rigel and Betelgeuse.
Interesting Engineering said Orion is the 26th biggest constellation in the sky, with seven major stars and a slew of smaller celestial bodies. The distance between Earth and the constellation Orion varies between 243 and 1360 light-years.
The closest star in the constellation to our planet is Bellatrix, around 244 light-years away. In contrast, the furthest star is Alnilam, which is 1,344 light-years away.
Meanwhile, the Rosette Nebula is an emission nebula, which means that its gases are illuminated by the radiation of its budding stars. It's a star-forming area molded by stars, who use the surrounding gas to fuse. As some of the region's stars fade away, they release material that can be used to create new stellar births.
According to Inverse, Rosette Nebula is around 5,200 light-years away from Earth, in the Milky Way's constellation Monoceros the Unicorn. The Rosette Nebula is a faint nebula that spans about 100 light-years.
This long exposure picture taken late on November 22, 2017 shows the Orion Nebula (C), a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, seen from Wundwin, near the Myanmar city of Mandalay.
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Amateur Astronomer Takes Stunning Photos In The Past
It isn't the first time the said amateur astronomer has taken stunning photographs.
Shaw put up a telescope on an abandoned, light-polluted street in Cumnock, East Ayrshire, to track star movement in the night skies.
According to Greek mythology, his photographs depict the magnificent Pleiades star cluster, which has seven daughters and two parents.
Before Galileo sighted the constellation with his own telescope in 1610, the snaps record light released by the stars.
Shaw, a photography studio owner, went out after work in 2021 on the first clear night in three weeks.
He claimed he loaded his belongings into the car and set up the telescope to follow the sky's objects.
The photographer had been attempting to catch the Pleiades since March 2021 and couldn't "stop beaming" when he finally did.
Shaw explained in a report that the Pleiades is an open star cluster. According to Shaw, the dust clouds surrounding it are reflected by the light of the real stars, which is why it's called a reflection nebula.
Those are the blue nebulas that round the stars, he added.
What's so remarkable about the discovery for Shaw is that the night sky changes all the time, and various targets become apparent.
While altering the telescope's calibration setting, Bryan's telescope was shooting the Pleiades between 12.30 am and 2.30 am local time.
The telescope delivers the photographs it takes to his tablet device automatically, allowing him to begin editing them - in this case, until 7 am.
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