Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Gemini (Gem)  ·  Contains:  NGC 2371
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Here's a faint planetary in Gemini. It is sometimes known as the 'tie fighter' nebula from the star wars films - to me it looks more like a sweet wrapper! Not easy to see visually at mag 13 this is a blue

planetary nebula with irregular inner disk with a very irregular brightness distribution and smooth outer disk.

Its approximate mean surface brightness is 12.9 (in magnitude per square arcminute).

A rather more impressive view of the nebula can be seen here:

https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0813a/

which gives some useful details of the structure of this P/N.

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