Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Hercules (Her)  ·  Contains:  NGC 6058
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NGC 6058 Planetary Nebula, Bob Stevenson
NGC 6058 Planetary Nebula
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NGC 6058 Planetary Nebula

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NGC 6058 Planetary Nebula, Bob Stevenson
NGC 6058 Planetary Nebula
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NGC 6058 Planetary Nebula

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Tiny. This planetary nebula is only around 40 arcseconds across.

Your pinky finger at arm's length is about 1 degree of sky. Slice that into 3600 layers and each layer is one arcsecond. This nebula measures only 40 of those slices, or 1% of the width of your pinky finger.

Just for fun, I uploaded the uncropped OIII image on the ASI2600. NGC 6058 is right in the centre.

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