Iris

Iris Nebula - NGC7023- PIRATE robotic telescope - Open University -Telescope.org - Credit Pip Stakkert

" Image taken with the PIRATE robotic telescope on Mount Teide Tennerife. The photograph was processed in the imaging suite at the Jodrell Plank Observatory by Pip Stakkert. 

NGC7023 or Caldwell4 is a bright reflection nebula 1300 light years distant in the constellation Cepheus. Light from a very bright and blue star HD200775 within a star cluster LBN487 is scattered  and reflected off dust in the shrouding  interstellar cloud from which the cluster was created."  Kurt Thrust - acting CEO and current Director of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.

Detail of the star cluster LBN487 around HD200775

"The Jodrell Plank Board of Trustees wishes to register its concern regarding the future operation of the Jodrell Plank Observatory after BREXIT.  A large number of the Observatory's technical and professional operatives along with its senior managers are foreign nationals earning salaries significantly below the British Government's threshold for residency. Kurt Thrust the acting CEO and current Director of Operations may be forced to return to Malta and Archie Mendes to Greece. The general level of 'suck-wittery' exhibited at this time by her Majesty's Government and Opposition is totally bewildering to anyone with a modicum of intelligence and education". Ivor Hump - Chairman of the Board of Trustees.

This is what a Telescope looks like without an astronomer Theresa !