Here's two images I knocked up via Aladin....DSS images IR(R), Red(G) and Blue(B), just for comparison. The other image is a greyscale version of the first. Makes things a little easier to see. You can see the PN in the centre of the image. The bright object that appears to be the central star is in fact a foreground object. The central star is appears to be invisible at visual wavelengths. As Scott mentioned in his posts, most of the light coming from this object is in the blue part of the spectrum. If you look closely, you may see that the neb' appears to have a slightly bipolar character.
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