Managed only one 10 minute exposure before the clouds came in. This is through the ED80 on CG5, autoguided, 300D (unmodded) iso 1600, dark frame subtracted in photoshop.
Notice planetary nebula PLN 303 +1.1 to the left of the Jewel Box. Louie and Anthony helped us try to identify this obscure object but we couldn't find it in any of our star maps on the night.
Notice also the blue nebulosity on the bottom right hand side of the image. Dont know what this is... Does anyone?
Narayan great to see that shot of yours posted,still couldnt find any info on that neb It's
starting to drive me nuts! that blue is probably reflection neb.
I emailed Doug Sydner who maintains a great website for Planetary nebs asking about the object in the image above and this is what he replied:
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Hi Narayan,
From your image and other information, I believe that planetary is
PK305+1.1
(other designations are PNG 305.1+01.4, He2-90 and ESO 132-1). It is in
Centaurus, east and south of the "Jewel Box' cluster. It is about 10
arc-seconds in size and has a photographic magnitude of 13.7. The
coordinates are 13h 09.6m, -61d 20m. It is listed in the
blackskies.com
database under He2-90 (Henize). I hope this helps!
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I had -as it turns out incorrectly -identified the object as PN 303+1.1
just to set the record straight and in case anyone else wants to hunt this object down!
The little red nebula caught my attention. It is not on any star charts I know of amazingly. Here is a DSS image of it http://archive.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/dss...e&fov=NONE&v3=
Its next on my list to get.
The blue glow in the pic is real, I believe its faint reflection nebulosity (Its a nice deep image by the way)
Scott
Hi all.
Done it, here it is http://www.users.on.net/~josiah/baader/unknownsmall.jpg
Its at
12 deg 50 m21s -61 deg 34.54
the shot is 1350 and 1800 sec shot, ISO 400 cropped full res from larger
image.
Id love to tell you its name but I cant as according to all the starmaps it doesnt exist.
Scott
If there are uncharted objects in our Southern Skies it's time we started cataloguing them as they are found. Possibly even name them if they are not already catalogued anywhere else. An IceInSpace catalogue possibly: IIS-1, IIS-2 etc. and sub-named after the discoverer: Narayan-A, etc.
If no-one else is doing it, might as well start now. IIS -1 (Narayans Nebula-A) A faint blue nebulous area South of the Jewel Box.
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I cant find any info on it at this stage.
