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Old 30-08-2021, 11:29 PM
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Spare Tyre Nebula

Nicknamed the Spare-tyre nebula, IC 5148 is a planetary nebula located around 1 degree west of Lambda Gruis in the constellation of Grus (The Crane). It was discovered by Australian amateur astronomer Walter Gale in 1894. Around 3000 light-years distant, it is expanding at a rate of 50 kilometres a second, one of the fastest of all planetary nebulae.
There are two little galaxies near the bottom orange star as well as other faint ones in the field.

Skywatcher 300PDS 12" F5 Newtonian, Svbony RGB filter set, ZWO ASI 183mm Pro, modified NEQ6 Pro, 389 x 30 seconds.

Larger field at Astrobin ---> https://astrob.in/hw2lrh/0/
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