Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cancer (Cnc)  ·  Contains:  HD75767  ·  HD75880  ·  HD76037  ·  HD76629  ·  IC 523  ·  PK219+31.1  ·  Sh2-290
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Sh2-290 (Abell 31) in Cancer, mhtandy
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Sh2-290 (Abell 31) in Cancer

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Sh2-290 (Abell 31) in Cancer, mhtandy
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Sh2-290 (Abell 31) in Cancer

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This is my 2nd try at this ancient planetary nebula, and it turned out somewhat better since I doubled my integration time. But it's so faint that it really takes much more time than I was motivated to give it in order to get a significantly better result. 
Winds were pretty strong the first couple of nights - so I decided to go with the Redcat instead of my longer focal length scope, thinking the smaller scope would be less likely to catch the wind. So detail suffered a bit with the lower FL.
I devoted one night to RGB stars, but thought they overwhelmed the small nebula, so only blended them in 20%/80% with the narrowband stars.
I may start adding data to this in the future, but for now - enough of this one! On to the galaxies...

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Sh2-290 (Abell 31) in Cancer, mhtandy