Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Lynx (Lyn)

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Headphone Nebula - PK 164+31.1, sydney
Headphone Nebula - PK 164+31.1
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Headphone Nebula - PK 164+31.1

Image of the day 03/05/2018

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Headphone Nebula - PK 164+31.1, sydney
Headphone Nebula - PK 164+31.1
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Headphone Nebula - PK 164+31.1

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This puppy is surprisingly faint especially when imaging through persistent haze. This planetary nebula is also known as Jones-Emberson 1 and located 1600 light-years away in the constellation Lynx. The bluish white-dwarf parent star is visible near the center of the structure at an apparent magnitude of 16.8.

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Headphone Nebula - PK 164+31.1, sydney