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Little Dumbbell Nebula (M76), DoubleStarPhotography
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Little Dumbbell Nebula (M76)

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Little Dumbbell Nebula (M76), DoubleStarPhotography
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Little Dumbbell Nebula (M76)

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This was a quick grab at the end of my Helix Nebula session.  The clouds has finally departed and it was just such a crisp clear fall night at that point......I just couldn't let that go to waste before packing things up for the night.

I wanted to see what I am up against with this bright but small nebula, looks like I'm going to need to bring more focal length for this one next go around! :-)

**Update - Did a second attempt against this object lat night (9/19/22), this time with better skies, twice the focal length (1960 vs. 980 orginally), and 8 times the exposure time (4hrs vs. 30 minutes).....definitely happier with this second attempt but this little planetary definitely doesn't give up it's secrets easily! ;-)   

I think I'll need more aperture then my TEC140 refractor brings for any future attempts! lol

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