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Skull Nebula (Planetary Nebula NGC 246)
I Noticed that this Nebulas was in perfect postion for imaging the other night. Due to Full Moon I used Narrow Band Filters only to capture this image.
This image is Ha 40min, Oiii 40min, & Sii 40min with 8inch Newt and Atik 314L+
The Nebula is faint at Mag 11.8, and is 4.1 Arc Min
The Nebula surrounds a dying star some 1,600 light-years away in the constellation Cetus.
The star you can see at the centre of the image seems egg shaped, but its actually a binary (two stars). This binary is becoming a dense, hot white dwarf (dying).
This is only the second Planetary Nebula I have imaged and I find them fascinating, but difficult.
Comments Welcomed.
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