Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Draco (Dra)  ·  Contains:  PGC 2762257  ·  PGC 2762522  ·  PK107+21.1
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
Kohoutek 1-6 (K 1-6), Peter Goodhew
Powered byPixInsight

Kohoutek 1-6 (K 1-6)

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
Kohoutek 1-6 (K 1-6), Peter Goodhew
Powered byPixInsight

Kohoutek 1-6 (K 1-6)

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

Kohoutek 1-6 (K 1-6) is an evolved low-surface brightness planetary nebula in the constellation Draco. It has an approximate size of 198 arc seconds and is around 3,000 light years from Earth.
It was discovered by Czech astronomer Luboš Kohoutek in 1962. It has a bow-shock structure which is attributed to interaction with the interstellar medium (ISM) and at its core is a binary star system.
I could only find one other image of this online - captured by the Capella Observatory in 2019.

Comments