Re: [APML] The Vela SNR from 33N...

["Tom & Lou Krajci" <krajcit@3lefties.com>]

From: "Chris & Jennifer Cook" <ccjd@ix.netcom.com>

> Could it be possible?  I didn't think so, but then I began investigating
the
> mysterious red glow in the lower left corner of my 15mm winter Milky Way
> image.  After confirming it with The Sky program and verifying it with
Axel
> Mellinger's all sky panorama and a image by John Gleason from Australia, I
> found out that it is the northern part of the Vela SNR!  Who would've
> thought.
>
> Here's my image:  http://www.abmedia.com/astro/current/wintermw-15mm.html
> ....with a labeled image for your reference.
>
> It was a good thing there was zero LP pollution on that part of the
horizon
> because it would've surely been lost if there was.

On the morning of 31 Dec, 97 I photographed that region with a 50mm lens.  I
was shooting from the Ouachita Mtns on the Oklahoma Arkansas border.
Latitude is about 34deg 40min.  My coverage to the south is almost identical
to yours.  Yes, there's a faint red glow in the same region on my prints.  I
never bothered to chase down what that red glow was.

>From what I remember, that was a pretty transparent night, and there was no
light pollution to the south of me that I could ever visually detect.

Tom Krajci


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