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Old 04-05-2015, 06:13 PM
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Ngc5189

NGC5189 or nicknamed the Spiral Planetary Nebula is located in Musca. And; this name is no doubt brought on by the striated nature of the gas and dust seen in various wave lengths

It is a tiny planetary. It is 90 x 62 arc seconds in size and to put that into perspective it has the apparent size of double Jupiter's width and about 1.25 times the apparent height of Jupiter. Seeing was variable over the 4 nights I collected data and I did not collect data below 42 degrees. With only 8 hours of data there is still some noise present but not enough gains can be made by collecting further data at this stage.

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