IC1295 and K4-8 (lowenthalm)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Scutum (Sct) · Contains: HD175314 · IC 1295 · NR Sct · NV Sct · OP Sct · PGC 203052 · PK025-04.1 · PK025-04.2 · PQ Sct · TYC5706-10147-1 · TYC5706-10174-1 · TYC5706-10246-1 · TYC5706-2148-1 · TYC5706-2179-1 · TYC5706-2507-1 · TYC5706-3002-1 · TYC5706-3031-1 · TYC5706-3276-1

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IC1295 is a large and pretty planetary nebula in Scutum. Its a tough object to capture from my backyard as it is only visible between trees and my house for about an hour each night up until just after it transits the meridian and only ranges from an altitude 30 to 35 degrees above the horizon during this period. I need a night with good seeing to capture objects that low, and had luckily had a few good nights in a row to capture several planetary nebulae that were down low in the southern region of my sky.

The central blue progenitor star of IC1295 can be seen at the center of the nebula. There is good Gaia mission parallax data on this star and therefore a good distance estimate for the nebula. The measured parallax of 0.6878 milliarc-seconds puts the nebula at about 1453 parsecs away from us (about 4739 light years). Based on its angular size of a little over 2 arc minutes, the nebula is about 3 light years across.

There is a little bonus planetary nebula, K4-8, which is the star-like blue-green disk just to the right and above IC1295. Its so small that its central star cannot be resolved by the Gaia satellite, so there is no parallax data on this object. Its angular diameter is no more than 3 arc seconds, only 1/40th the angular diameter of IC1295. If we guess this little object is between 0.5 and 1.0 light year across (its still pretty bright, so its probably still young and small), it could be between 9000 and 18000 parsecs away from us!

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RA (center)	18h54m36s.387
RA (top/left)	18h55m14s.922
RA (top/right)	18h53m58s.123
RA (bottom/right)	18h53m57s.840
RA (bottom/left)	18h55m14s.634

Dec (center)	-08°49′47″.40
Dec (top/left)	-08°43′09″.18
Dec (top/right)	-08°43′03″.40
Dec (bottom/right)	-08°56′25″.85
Dec (bottom/left)	-08°56′31″.80

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