Ngc7009

[Paul Haese]

This is another image out of Swan Reach Imaging. This one is of the small planetary nebula NGC7009 or the Saturn nebula. It certainly does look like Saturn in very poor seeing.

It lies around 2000 and 5200 light years distance. It has an apparent diameter of 0.6" and presents quite small even when imaging at 0.94".

For this object I used 120 second sub exposures to prevent blowing out the core detail too much. I could not detect if there was much of a halo at all in the OIII.

Click here for the larger image.

[atalas]

Tiny! very nice Paul.....maybe consider blending in longer subs before giving up on an extended halo?

What was your seeing like? I ask because the stars in this and other shot don't seem to have your usual luminosity shinning through.....could be my monitor.

Anyway still great work me thinks.

[Joshua Bunn (Joshua)]

That is awesome! It really packs a punch. I like how you have let it glow. One can imagine what it would look like, with more image scale. Lovely!

[Dave882 (David)]

Great shot of a very challenging target! With such a bright core it easy to loose all that nice detail but you’ve done really well - and lovely colour too!