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Old 26-03-2006, 03:03 PM
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Planeteries on the menu

G,day all,

I had a brilliant night under the stars last night. Two objects stood out for me, both planetery nebulae; NGC 3195 in Chamaeleon and NGC 3132 in Vela.

With my 300mm Dob both object showed tantilising detail. But I was really impressed with NGC 3132. Plenty of detail is visable and that was with out my OIII filter and I was under suburban skies. I have enclosed a Hubble pic of NGC 3132 and some of the internal structure in the image is visable thru my Dob.

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