Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  HD17958  ·  HD18137  ·  HD18565  ·  HD18892  ·  PK136+04.1  ·  PK136+05.1
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Abell 6 and HFG1, PhotonCollector
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Abell 6 and HFG1

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Abell 6 and HFG1

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Imaged from under my Bortle 8-9 sky.Abell 6 is that cute soap bubble at bottom-right. It is almost identical in apparent size to the famous Ring Nebula (M57), but is MUCH fainter; magnitude 14.3 vs. 8.8, or 1/158 as bright.HFG1 (discovered in 1982 by Heckathorn, Fesen and Gull), was produced by a magnitude 14.5 binary star system (V664 Cas) that is moving rapidly through the Milky Way. The system is moving towards the bottom-left of the image. As it plows through the interstellar medium, a bluish bowshock is produced and a red trail of gas is left behind in its wake. My image suggests a tail, but longer exposure images by faster scopes bring it out more distinctly.

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Abell 6 and HFG1, PhotonCollector