This bipolar planetary nebula is called PN G080.8-10.6, and is also known as the Methuselah Nebula or MWP1 after the discoverers Motch-Werner-Pakull.
It is located close to the left edge of my Cygnus mosaic, between The North America nebula and the Veil nebula. Full mosaic is posted here for reference:
12-panel Cygnus mosaic MWP 1 is one of the largest planetary nebula in the night sky, but it is very faint and rarely imaged. When I processed this in 2021, I found only a handful reference images that show the full extent of the surrounding nebulosity. E.g. Astrobin user
snakagawa and SGL’s
Tom OD versions.
Definitely a target that I would like to revisit with my apo refractor one day. Especially because this is only 15 minutes of Ha and 50 minutes of OIII data!
I reprocessed this specific panel of my summer mosaic with 2x downsampling and very strong noise reduction in order to bright out the surrounding OIII and Ha clouds in the background. You can barely see the nebula in the raw data (see revisions). Starnet++ and noise reduction allowed me to push the contrast to insane levels.
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