Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Lepus (Lep)  ·  Contains:  PK228-22.1
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DeHt 1, Gary Imm
DeHt 1, Gary Imm

DeHt 1

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DeHt 1, Gary Imm
DeHt 1, Gary Imm

DeHt 1

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Description

This Astrobin Debut Object is a planetary nebula is located 6200 light years away in the constellation of Lepus at a declination of -23 degrees.  It is the first object in the Dengel-Hartl planetary nebulae catalog.  The PN spans 2 arc-minutes in our apparent view, which corresponds to a diameter of 3.5 light years.

This nebula is dominated by OIII signal. The progenitor is clearly visible as the small blue star at the center of the nebula, just left of the orange foreground star.

I love the unique crescent moon shape of this nebula.  It looks to me like the interstellar medium (ISM) has distorted this circular nebula to the right and down, looking like the PN has a drop shadow.

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