NGC 7293, The Helix Nebula

AstroBoy · Post #21by **AstroBoy** » 07.05.2003, 20:00

The radius has been tweeked to have the correct size comparing of the surounding stars, as you can see below...

In fact, radius in Celestia is not the same that the nebula one's, it is the size of the model. So radius depend on how the texture is mapped to the models. Those dimension should only be used to give a magnitude order.

ogg · Post #22by **ogg** » 10.05.2003, 10:56

see the Astronomy Picture of the Day for May 10, 2003 (ie the current one, as I write this).
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

the bigpic (very pretty... ) is at:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/ ... st_big.jpg

Interestingly, they have the distance here at 650ly; which might be a typo or just indicative of 'not having a clue really', they link to pages that quote 450ly and ~200pc = 650ly.

AstroBoy · Post #23by **AstroBoy** » 11.05.2003, 00:54

Still don't know real distance !!

Thank for your link, this picture is great, and will be used for my helix nebula.

ogg · Post #24by **ogg** » 11.05.2003, 02:00

cheers! you're more than welcome, look forward to it!

AstroBoy · Post #25by **AstroBoy** » 11.05.2003, 19:45

New version, now available... Check my site.

Darkmiss · Post #26by **Darkmiss** » 12.05.2003, 00:12

Download links to the first version :cry:

Vicware · Post #27by **Vicware** » 12.05.2003, 03:33

Your link doesn't work.

Psykotik · Post #28by **Psykotik** » 12.05.2003, 11:32

I have checked his website just now, and the link has been updated.

Hey, folk, it's worth the download...

AstroBoy · Post #29by **AstroBoy** » 12.05.2003, 17:46

Sorry for those problems.

They have been fixed now...

Enjoy

Darkmiss · Post #30by **Darkmiss** » 12.05.2003, 23:01

looks very nice

Vicware · Post #31by **Vicware** » 14.05.2003, 03:27

The link still doesn't work.

I get a page in French, then it goes back to your download
page - in an endless loop.

Vic

praesepe · Post #32by **praesepe** » 14.05.2003, 16:38

Vicware,

I've checked the link and I haven't encountered any errors, it works fine for me :?:

http://membres.lycos.fr/tompouce00/down ... 93_new.zip

Post #33by **selden** » 14.05.2003, 17:13

The error message that I get (en Francais) is that I must first visit the home page in order to access the zip file. After a few seconds, the error page loads the Web page http://membres.lycos.fr/tompouce00/, accompanied by a popup advertisement.

This is reasonable for a free web site, but annoying.

praesepe · Post #34by **praesepe** » 14.05.2003, 17:19

This is so strange.. I've retried again and I can get to the file without any problem... :?:

AstroBoy · Post #35by **AstroBoy** » 14.05.2003, 17:54

The error message that I get (en Francais) is that I must first visit the home page in order to access the zip file. After a few seconds, the error page loads the Web page http://membres.lycos.fr/tompouce00/, accompanied by a popup advertisement.

This is reasonable for a free web site, but annoying.

Yes, that's impossible to download the file if you do not download from my main page.
If anyone knows a good free website...

Grumf · Post #36by **Grumf** » 15.05.2003, 10:18

But we do try to download it from your main page !!

Darkmiss · Post #37by **Darkmiss** » 15.05.2003, 15:09

I tested the link again, and it works perfect here.

the link takes me to youe lycos hompage, then quickly changers to a page with the two versions of the nebula

try this link http://membres.lycos.fr/tompouce00/

Grumf · Post #38by **Grumf** » 15.05.2003, 16:01

That's just the link we're trying !! :cry:

julesstoop · Post #39by **julesstoop** » 15.05.2003, 17:15

No problem with the original link over here. Just some patience and closing three anoying popups are needed.

Darkmiss · Post #40by **Darkmiss** » 15.05.2003, 19:38

Well if everybody else is saying its working fine,
Then the problem must be somewhere at your end.

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NGC 7293, The Helix Nebula

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