NGC 6781 #1 (Molly Wakeling)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Aquila (Aql) · Contains: NGC 6781 · PK041-02.1

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NGC 6781 #1

Next from the Okie-Tex Star Party!
I've had this one on my list since I first observed it back at the 2018 Texas Star Party, when I was working on my first TSP observing pin, "20 Stinking Planetaries." It struck me because of its large size and yet how much I could see of it. It was really neat to see visually in my 8" SCT, and I just had to image it!

NGC 6781 is a planetary nebula in the constellation Aquarius, the leftovers of a dying main sequence star. It lies about 1,500 lightyears away. We're seeing it nearly head-on toward the pole, and is about a half a lightyear across. The progenitor star, now a magnitude 16.88 white dwarf, left its asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stage about 9,400 years ago, and has been cooling since. It has a binary companion star about 5,000 AU away.

The seeing was pretty bad during the times I was imaging this one, so I couldn't pull out a lot of detail, but it's pretty nonetheless!

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RA (center)	19h18m28s.116
RA (top/left)	19h18m02s.192
RA (top/right)	19h18m02s.987
RA (bottom/right)	19h18m53s.991
RA (bottom/left)	19h18m53s.261

Dec (center)	+06°32′19″.63
Dec (top/left)	+06°41′04″.84
Dec (top/right)	+06°23′26″.60
Dec (bottom/right)	+06°23′34″.68
Dec (bottom/left)	+06°41′14″.70

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