Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)
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Patchick 5 in Cygnus, Jon Talbot
Patchick 5 in Cygnus
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Patchick 5 in Cygnus, Jon Talbot
Patchick 5 in Cygnus
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I've had a terrible late spring and summer in terms of clouds/rain.  I suppose its to be expected as summer is my worst season.  Even so I was able to capture data on Patchick 5 over the last several months.  
Patchick 5 is a extremely faint planetary nebula in the constellation Cygnus. It was discovered in 2005 by Dana Patchick by scanning DSS survey plates. It's a bipolar planetary nebula and in the surrounding area there is some very faint HII emission clouds. Patchick 5 is also small measuring 2.5 arcmin in size. There are very few images of this object. A quick search only shows 2 images that I could find although I'm sure there are a few more. A very good image is the one by Bernhard Hubl taken with a 12" reflector with twice the aperture as my 6" refractor. In any case there are not many and its faintness may be why. Even though I took 11 and 40min each of Ha and OIII, the nebula remained very faint. The image resolution is .64 arc sec/pixel and was taken using 1x1 binning and 1/2 frame ROI.

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