Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Fornax (For)  ·  Contains:  NGC 1360
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NGC1360 - Robin's Egg Nebula, Rodney Watters
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NGC1360 - Robin's Egg Nebula

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NGC1360 - Robin's Egg Nebula, Rodney Watters
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NGC1360 - Robin's Egg Nebula

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NGC1360, a.k.a. "Robin's Egg Nebula". A planetary nebula in the constellation of Fornax. A lovely and distinctively shaped nebula that is different in many ways to most classical planetary nebula. The deep blue colour comes from the presence of Oxygen III gas in the nebula and was captured using OIII filters on my QSI 683 camera. The red material noticeable coming from the north east of the nebula is said to have been ejected before the central star became a true planetary nebula.

The nebula is approximately 111 x 7.5 arcminutes in size and is located at a distance of about 1800 light years from earth. Fairly close in the overall scheme of things.

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NGC1360 - Robin's Egg Nebula, Rodney Watters