Brandon Christmas and Joe Corrigan
In this module we studied stellar remnants. The kind of stellar remnant we observed was a planetary nebula. The particular Nebula we observed was NGC 5189. The gaseous cloud structures of Planetary nebulae form when a star around the mass of the sun blows off its outer shell at the end of its life. It’s core forms into an ultra dense ball of electron degenerate matter called a White Dwarf. Our group utilized Skynet to take these observations. We used the Prompt 5 telescope located at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. We observed NGC 5189 with H alpha, O III, and S II filters with 15 exposures per filter. We then processed the images using afterglow. We stacked the images and aligned them using WCS and Photometry. Finally we added a color map and produced the following image.
