NGC 6881, Brandon Pimenta

NGC 6881

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NGC 6881 is a planetary nebula in Cygnus located near the far more famous Crescent Nebula. I wasn't really aware of this until I was researching some information about planetary nebulae in the LMC and SMC and ran across one with the "quadrupolar" morphology classification. I wanted to see if our galaxy had such a thing, looks like it does, along with NGC 6309. May process that one soon, as there is data for it.

Red: hst_08307_04_wfpc2_f658n_pc_sci.fits

Green: hst_08307_04_wfpc2_f656n_pc_sci.fits

Blue: hst_08307_04_wfpc2_f502n_pc_sci.fits

Data from November 1, 1999 obtained from Hubble Legacy Archive.

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NGC 6881, Brandon Pimenta