3.8 apod

March 17/18 you can see the northern lights in someone backyard in Vallentuna Sweden. Vallentuna is about 30 kilometers north of Stockholm. This is one of the strongest geomagnetic storm of this solar cycle. They began watching 2 days before when a coronal mass ejection happened. This backyard observatory is amazing and very unique. The name of this observatory is Carpe Noctem.

3.7 apod

In this picture you get to see what earth looks like during a total solar eclipse. As you can see it appers as a big dark region. That dark spot is the shadow of the moon. THe shadow shoots across earth at about 2000 kilometers per hour. This eclipse happened during march 2006. This is the perspective of the ISS. Today is another solar eclipse this time it will be over the Atlantic ocean. 

Planetary Nebulae

cats eye nebula
It has the combined magnitude of 8.1, with high surface brightness. Its small bright inner nebula subtends an average of 16.1 arcsec, with the outer prominent condensations about 25 arcsec. Deep images reveal an extended halo about 300 arcsec or 5 arcmin across, that was once ejected by the central progenitor star during its red giant phase. In the constellation draco. 


Ring Nebula

Messier 57 is located south of the bright star Vega , which forms the northwestern vertex of the Summer Triangle asterism.M57 is an example of the class of planetary nebulae known as bipolar nebulae, whose thick equatorial rings visibly extend the structure through its main axis of symmetry. 

Right ascension	18h 53m 35.079s[1]
Declination	+33° 01′ 45.03″[1]
Distance	2.3+1.5 −0.7 kly (700+450 −200pc)[2][3]
Apparent magnitude (V)	8.8[4]
Apparent dimensions (V)	230″ × 230″[2]
Constellation	Lyra

Dumbbell Nebula. 

First nebula to ever be discovered by Charles messier. 

Right ascension	19h 59m 36.340s[1]
Declination	+22° 43′ 16.09″[1]
Distance	1,360+160 −212 ly (417+49 −65pc)[2][3]
Apparent magnitude (V)	7.5[1]
Apparent dimensions (V)	8′.0 × 5′.6[4]
Constellation	Vulpecula

Hour glass nebula 

 8,000 LY away from earth. . It was discovered by Annie Jump Cannon and Margaret W. Mayall during their work on an extended Henry Draper Catalogue. 

Right ascension	13h 39m 35.116s[1]
Declination	−67° 22′ 51.45″[1]
Distance	8 kly (2.5kpc)[citation needed]
Apparent magnitude (V)	13.0[1]
Constellation	Musca

Wolf-Rayet Nebula

M1-67 is the youngest wind-nebula around a Wolf-Rayet star, calledWR124, in our Galaxy. In the constellaton cygnus.

The naked eye stars Gamma Velorum and Theta Muscae as well as the most massive start, R136a1 in 30 Doradus.Wolf–Rayet stars are extremely hot, with surface temperatures in the range of 30,000 K to around 200,000 K.

Planetary Nebula Hen 1357 or the Stingray Nebulas was photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. It is located about 18,000 light-years from Earth and lies in the constellation Ara the Altar. This expanding cloud of gas was expelled from an aging star in the nebula’s centre.

NGC 6326 Located about 11,000 ly away from earth and in the constellation of Ara. This nebula is made of ejected material.

The Helix Nebula in the constellation of Aquarius  lies about 700 light-years away, spanning about 0.8 Parsec or 2.5 light-years. 

Right ascension	22h 29m 38.55s[2]
Declination	−20° 50′ 13.6″[2]
Distance	714+88 −68 ly (219+27 −21 pc)[3]
Apparent magnitude(V)	+7.6[2]
Apparent dimensions (V)	25′[4]
Constellation	Aquarius

Eskimo Nebula

NGC 2392 lies more than 2,870 light-years away and is visible with a small Telescope in the constellation of Gemini. NGC 2392 WH IV-45 is included in the Astronomical League's Herschel 400 observing program.

Right ascension	07h 29m 10.7669s[1]
Declination	+20° 54′ 42.488″[1]
Distance	≥2,870 ly (≥880 pc)[2]
Apparent magnitude(V)	10.1[1]
Apparent dimensions(V)	48″ × 48″[3]
Constellation	Gemini
Physical characteristics
Radius	≥0.34 ly[a]
Absolute magnitude(V)	≤0.4 [b]
Notable features	–
Other designations	NGC 2392,[1] Caldwell 39, Clown Nebula,[1] Clown Face[1]

The Necklace Nebula (PN G054.2-03.4) is a 12-trillion-mile-wide (2.0 light-year-wide) Planetary Nebula located about 15,000 light-years away in the northern constellation Sagitta. The Necklace Nebula is the exploded aftermath of a giant star that came too close to its Sun-like binary companion. The embedded bright knots are dense gas clumps in the ring. 

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