Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Lynx (Lyn)
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
PK164+31.1 in NB and RGB, DeepSkyView
PK164+31.1 in NB and RGB
Powered byPixInsight

PK164+31.1 in NB and RGB

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
PK164+31.1 in NB and RGB, DeepSkyView
PK164+31.1 in NB and RGB
Powered byPixInsight

PK164+31.1 in NB and RGB

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

Jones-Emberson 1, also known as PK164+31.1, is a beautiful planetary nebula in the constellation Lynx. Some people also call it the headphone nebula for obvious reasons. It resulted from the death of a sun-like star that expanded to a red giant and expelled its outer layers before collapsing to a white dwarf. The picture shows, both, the shells of gas expelled from the giant and a central blue dot, which is the remaining white-dwarf star.

The version A is a two-color narrowband composite from about 14 hours of Ha and OIII data. Version B is a LRGB composite of a total of 16 hours of data, where I use the narrowband data to enhance the luminance channel. Everything taken with the Astro-Physics RH-305 at the Deep Sky West Observatory.

Comments

Revisions

  • Final
    PK164+31.1 in NB and RGB, DeepSkyView
    Original
  • PK164+31.1 in NB and RGB, DeepSkyView
    B

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

PK164+31.1 in NB and RGB, DeepSkyView