Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Puppis (Pup)  ·  Contains:  PK260-03.1
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Puppis A, Fabian Rodriguez Frustaglia
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Puppis A is a supernova remnant about 100 lightyears in diameter and roughly 6500–7000 lightyears distant. Its apparent angular diameter is about 1 degree. The light of the supernova explosion reached Earth approximately 3700 years ago. Although it overlaps the Vela supernova remnant, it is four times more distant.

This target was not catalogued in TheSkyX, so I'd to manually enter the coordinates; then my 10' exposures shown only a star field, so I was not sure something else will be there.

During 5 nights I'd managed to get 10 hours of data, 60 x 10' with my Meade LX850 12" @ f/5.7 + SBIG STF-8300C.

So, I was tempted to quickly process it in order to know if the remnant will appear in the image...

In my image, the hydrogen and nitrogen emissions can be seen in red, while oxygen filaments are seen in blue-green hues.

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Puppis A, Fabian Rodriguez Frustaglia