Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Vulpecula (Vul)  ·  Contains:  Dumbbell Nebula  ·  HD189733  ·  M 27  ·  NGC 6853  ·  PK060-03.1
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
Dumbbell Nebula * M27, Johannes Teupen
Powered byPixInsight

Dumbbell Nebula * M27

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
Dumbbell Nebula * M27, Johannes Teupen
Powered byPixInsight

Dumbbell Nebula * M27

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

The Dumbbell Nebula (also known as M 27 or NGC 6853) is a planetary nebula about 1300 light-years distant, 7.5 mag bright with an angular extent of 8.0 × 5, 7 arc minutes in the constellation Vulpecula. The nebula formed about 10,000 years ago and is expanding at about 30 km/s around its central star, a white dwarf of magnitude 14 and a temperature of over 100,000 Kelvin. Due to the high temperature, the central star emits mostly invisible radiation in the ultraviolet and X-ray ranges, but uses this radiation to ionize the atoms of the nebula and, as is typical for planetary nebulae, causes them to glow 100 times brighter than the sun.
(From Wikipedia)

Comments

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

Dumbbell Nebula * M27, Johannes Teupen