A very small member of the list of 100 Brightest Planetary Nebulae. Hubble shots are spectacular but I only get 12x12 pixels with my equipment.
From Wikipedia:
NGC 6884 is a
planetary nebula located in the
constellationCygnus, less than a degree to the southwest of the star
Ο1 Cygni. It lies at a distance of approximately 12.5
kly from the
Sun. The nebula was discovered on May 8, 1883 by American astronomer
Edward C. Pickering.This nebula consists of the cast-off outer atmosphere of an aging star. It is young and compact with a kinematic age of 720 years. The nebula is point-symmetric with arcs forming an S-shaped inner core; the shape is likely explained by bipolar outflows with a velocity of 55 km/s. The core is surrounded by a filamentary ring structure that is inclined at an angle of around 40–45° to the line of sight from the Earth. The core has an overall shape of a prolate
ellipsoid with axis ratios of 1.6:1 and is inclined by 40°. The expansion velocity of the nebula ranges over 19–25 km/s. The central star has a temperature of ~100,000 K
[7] and a
class of WN b?.
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