Man, it's been 2 months since my last image
and this one was scrapped together over 7 nights since then through breaks in clouds, under varying amounts of Moon, through high Cirrus and a couple of almost wasted nights due to Murphy and his clouds.
Seeing was good on one night when I was gathering the Halpha but the rest were varying levels of average to below average
Anyway, after thinking how am I going to get a decent image out of this piece meal data....I am actually pretty happy with how it came together
This beautiful magic egg of a planetary has two intriguing Ha jets emanating from each of its ends and not really this well shown in most other images on the net, so the good seeing that night deffinitely helped. The nebula floats nicely against a great carpet of distant background galaxies of all shapes and sizes too, so shame the seeing wasn't as good for the Lum gathering
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Cool things to look for when panning around:
1) A couple'a cool ring galaxies
2) An even cooler and much more distant version of this famous Hubble
Tadpole Galaxy
Have fun
NGC 1360 The Magic Egg in Fornax