Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)
IPHASX J205013.7 + 465518, Derek Santiago
IPHASX J205013.7 + 465518
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IPHASX J205013.7 + 465518

IPHASX J205013.7 + 465518, Derek Santiago
IPHASX J205013.7 + 465518
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IPHASX J205013.7 + 465518

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This very faint, rarely imaged (I can find only two other images of it) and fairly recently discovered (Sabin 2005) planetary nebula in Cygnus is bipolar surrounded by an irregular shell which was presumably disrupted by its interaction with the ISM.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1001.0027.pdf
I didn’t post my initial effort on this because it was so faint and required so much stretching of the data that the dense Cygnus star field overwhelmed the nebula. But a reprocess using a new star removal plugin (Croman) allowed me to process the nebula and starfield separately.

Imaging Camera: QSI640 wsg
Imaging Scope: 9.25" Celestron edge at F/10
Guide Camera: SX Lodestar x 2, PHD2
Mount:Avalon M Uno
Filters: Astrodon
Exposure: 30 minute subs. 3 hours 5nm OIII and 3 hours 5nm Ha, all binned X2
Capture Program: APT
Processing: CCD Stack and PS CC.
Date: 7/12/18
Reprocessed 11/1/21
Location: My front driveway. Morristown, NJ
SQM 17.8 Mag/arc-sec2

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IPHASX J205013.7 + 465518, Derek Santiago