Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)
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Patchick 5 (Pa 5, PN G 076.3+14.1), Boris US5WU
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Patchick 5 (Pa 5, PN G 076.3+14.1)

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Patchick 5 (Pa 5, PN G 076.3+14.1), Boris US5WU
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Patchick 5 (Pa 5, PN G 076.3+14.1)

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Patchick 5 (Pa 5, PN G 076.3+14.1) is a bipolar planetary nebula in constellation Cygnus.

This planetary nebula, which is embedded in faint background nebulosity, was discovered by Dana Patchick, a member of the Deep Sky Hunter team in year 2005 by scanning the digital sky surveys (DSS).

Pa 5 has a size of 2.6 arcminutes and distance is estimated to be about 4,500 light years. It is one of the few planetary with a confirmed binary central star with orbital period of 1.12 days.

This image taken in August, September 2020.

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