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Hey Les
Upon further research, it turns out that the object I was hunting WASN'T actually the Pencil Nebula. In the MSA, I found a detached portion of the Vela SNR whose outline almost matches what I saw in the 18", but the Pencil nebula's coordinates are completely different. But before I knew this I assumed it was the pencil neb because of the shape of the outline. In the MSA there is actually nothing plotted where the Pencil Neb is supposed to be NGC 2000.0 gives the right coordinates but labels it as a galaxy!
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