M27 "Dumbbell" Planetary Nebula (2021) (Mark Germani)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Vulpecula (Vul) · Contains: 14 Vul · Dumbbell Nebula · HD189733 · M 27 · NGC 6853 · PK060-03.1 · The star 14Vul

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M27 "Dumbbell" Planetary Nebula (2021)

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M27 "Dumbbell" Planetary Nebula (2021)

After long thinking planetaries were too small for my FOV, I was excited to discover how relatively large and particularly bright M27 is. I would encourage anybody with a small refractor to go after this target!

I imaged M27 over several nights, until I knew I'd have in excess of 2 hours of useable data. After my first round of processing, I decided to re-do just the stars from scratch, stretching entirely in Photoshop and trying my best not to blow anything out. I used Adobe Camera Raw a fair bit (thank you @wsg !) on both the stars and the nebula.

I sat on this for a week before posting, doing small tweaks here and there. I'm happy to share it, and I hope to get more time on it someday, after I have a go at a few more late-summer & fall targets.

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RA (center)	19h59m36s.39
RA (top/left)	19h57m57s.23
RA (top/right)	19h58m03s.25
RA (bottom/right)	20h01m14s.88
RA (bottom/left)	20h01m10s.50

Dec (center)	+22°43′14″.9
Dec (top/left)	+23°16′05″.8
Dec (top/right)	+22°09′32″.0
Dec (bottom/right)	+22°10′20″.9
Dec (bottom/left)	+23°16′54″.3

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