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Old 16-04-2016, 04:33 AM
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Fleming 1 - with red wings

This is a tiny planetary in Centaurus about 10,000 light years away. The bright central oval is quite small at about 50 arc sec in diameter, while the two red jets extend out to nearly 5 arc min across. There is thought to be a rare pair of binary white dwarf stars at the centre of the nebula.

Seeing wasn't crash hot (decent steady skies seem to be rather elusive of late) and the skies were only really cloud free for one out of the three nights it took to collect the nearly 13hrs of data, with lots of high cloud around Canberra lately

Fleming 1 (100% Crop)

To identify the fine features captured HERE is a comparison with a VLT image

Mike
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