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Old 27-09-2014, 12:58 PM
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coldlegs (Stephen)
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Chasing a fuzzy blob

Had a shot at doing the R Coronae Australis region recently and unsurprisingly discovered that I clearly need to work on my processing a bit more. Also noticed a fuzzy blob at the bottom of the frame. Got bored one night and decided to try and identify what I presumed was a distant galaxy. Ran Elbrus and located it at 19h01m17.56s, -37d37m41.3s then fed that position into Simbad and a few others but found nothing there. Took a closer look at it and realised that it had what appears to be a very fuzzy star in the middle so began to think it might be an early stage planetary nebula. Had a look at other images in the deep space forum and most people seem to process it either into a red star or process it out of existence. I'm beginning to think it's a dying red giant about to blow it's top off and become a full planetary nebula but that's just my wild guess. Does anyone know what it is??
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Stephen
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