Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)
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KjPn 8 - the Croissant Nebula, Sven Eklund
KjPn 8 - the Croissant Nebula
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KjPn 8 - the Croissant Nebula

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KjPn 8 - the Croissant Nebula, Sven Eklund
KjPn 8 - the Croissant Nebula
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KjPn 8 - the Croissant Nebula

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KjPn 8 (PN G112.5200) is a bipolar planetary nebula in Cassiopeia, discovered in 1971 by Kazaryan and Parsamyan (at least the inner core).

As its shape (at least to me) resembles a croissant I took the liberty of dubbing it ”the Croissant Nebula”.
KjPn 8 sits in the center of a very large filamentary nebula, 14 by 4 arc.min in size, which makes it one of the largest known bipolar structure associated with a planetary nebula.
The Nii emissions are reported to be very strong.

All exposures are unguided 120s at f/2 and binned 1x1. Image is drizzled and cropped.

18h Ha
12h Oiii

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