NEW DISCOVERY IMAGE! "The Heart in Monoceros" Strottner-Drechsler 44 (Jon Talbot)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Monoceros (Mon)

NEW DISCOVERY IMAGE! "The Heart in Monoceros" Strottner-Drechsler 44, Jon Talbot

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NEW DISCOVERY IMAGE! "The Heart in Monoceros" Strottner-Drechsler 44

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Link: https://www.starscapeimaging.com/StDr44/StDr44.html

I'm excited to announce the first deep image taken of a potential planetary nebula Strottner-Drechsler 44 (StDr44) in the constellation Monoceros. StDr44 was discovered by Xavier Strottner and Marcel Drechsler in March of 2020. It lies not too far from the frequently imaged Sea Gull Nebula in Monoceros. StDr44 is the object near image center. This fascinating object takes on the shape of a heart so I thought it appropriate to give it the name "The Heart in Monoceros". The raw data was shared with the Strottner/Drechsler team and the image above was superbly processed by Marcel Drechsler, one of the co discoverer's.

StDr 44 is very faint and shows amazing structure in the Ha and OIII bands. It's approximately 21x13 arcmin in diameter. Hopefully, in the future, this image will allow for professional spectra to be taken of this object unveiling its true nature.

Within the full image is a large, long area of Ha emission and several other objects.

In the lower right lies another "likely" planetary nebula with the designation PHR J0701-0749. It's much smaller at 1 or 2 arcmin and looks like a typical oval shell of gas that has been ejected from the host star. It also shows a fan shaped area of Ha emission which is brighter to its north. Near the center top of the image is the reflection nebula GN 07.00..7.

On the extreme right side is also the reflection nebula 2326.

StDr44 is located at RA 07 03 06.25 and DEC -07 31 45.3

StDr 44 was imaged from 30 Nov 2021 through 13 Jan 2022 from my home observatory under Bortle 5 skies. I used my Stellarvue SVX 152T refractor with a ZWO ASI 6200 CMOS camera using 2x2 binning at a resolution of 1.28 arcsec/pixel. The image combines 35.6 hrs of exposure time.

Image Credit: Jonathan Talbot and Marcel Drechsler

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