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Bob, I visited this planetary last night after IC418 to follow up your observations.
At 62X I could see a bluish spot that on close examination, was obviously non-stellar. In a cursory view of the star field it would be easy to overlook this as a just another pale blue star.
At 229X it appeared as an irregular elongated shape with no clearly defined outer edge. It was a smokey blue and reasonably bright even at this magnification. I judged the size to be about 50% greater than the apparent size of IC418 and brightness to be similar to IC418. Averted vision revealed slightly sharper edge detail. I could not see any central star.
Telescope Vixen NA140SS on TRex mount and LVW 13 & 3.5 eyepieces.
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