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this is an image of NGC7662, the blue snowball nebula. it was, with a visual
magnitude of 8.3, pretty easy to find, even though seeing was bad on that evening.
this planetary nebula has a variable star in its center and is located in andromeda,
about 5000 lightyears away with a radius of 0,8 lightyears. There you go again:

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Observer, Objectinfo: monolog @ NGC7662 (Blue Snowball Nebula)
Date, Time, Location: 16.08.2009 / 03:45 CET / alt 447m
Telescope, Mount: 10" Newton on EQ6 Pro (SynScan GoTo)
Cam, Exposure: EOS 20D DSLR / x * 30Sec. iSO 800 - 3200

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this is another very famous, 1250 lightyear distant nebula and also the first object
of that type that has been discovered. the dumbell nebula has a visual magnitude of
about 7.4 and features an extremely hot blueish dwarf (85,000K) at its center. the
central star is quite bright at mag 13.5. the nebula would possibly look like a ring
viewed from a different angle (similar to m57, captured earlier). pretty cool imo.

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Observer, Objectinfo: monolog @ M27 (The Dumbbell Nebula)
Date, Time, Location: 16.08.2009 / 02:10 CET / alt 447m
Telescope, Mount: 10" Newton on EQ6 Pro (SynScan GoTo)
Cam, Exposure: EOS 20D DSLR / x * 30Sec. iSO 800 - 3200

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yea, way more interesting... the ring nebula, m57, let the deepsky madness begin!
m57 is one of the most famous examples of the deepsky objects called planetary
nebulae, often abbreviated by astronomers as simply planetaries or pn. the nebula
is located 2,300 lightyears away in the constellation lyra, south of its brightest star
vega and has a visual magnitude of 8.8. m57 is illuminated by a central white dwarf
or planetary nebula nucleus (pnn) of 15.75v visual magnitude

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Observer, Objectinfo: monolog @ M57 (The Ring Nebula)
Date, Time, Location: 16.08.2009 / 02:10 CET / alt 447m
Telescope, Mount: 10" Newton on EQ6 Pro (SynScan GoTo)
Cam, Exposure: EOS 20D DSLR / x * 30Sec. iSO 800 - 3200

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