M34 (meteoritehunterjim)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Perseus (Per) · Contains: HD16605 · HD16627 · HD16655 · HD16679 · HD16693 · HD16705 · HD16719 · HD16728 · HD16738 · HD16782 · HD16855 · HD16857 · M 34 · NGC 1039 · PK144-15.1

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I was just filling in some time as I waited for Orion to get high enough to shoot. M34 seemed to be a rather unremarkable open cluster. But as is often the case you see something in the frame that is interesting and that you never knew was there. I only took one minute exposures since it is an open star cluster and I did not want to wash out the star colors by over exposing them. As I was doing the little bit of processing required I saw what I think is a cute little planetary nebula at about 5 o'clock a little up from the bottom of the frame. I hope that the little blue/green guy will get identified when the plate solving is done. There were also many galaxies that came out even with the short exposure. I may have to return here with the 10 inch RC and do M34 again.

Later addition: I am coming back right away with this information on my cute little planetary nebula. It was found and marked by the plate solving here on Astrobin. It is PK144-15.1 also known as PN A66 4 or Abell 4 and has been seen and commented on by other astrophotographers. It turns out to be one of the brighter Abell objects. It is a Magnitude 12.5 planetary that I will come back and get later with a greater focal length telescope.

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	6653104
PixInsight job	12BI8EMDI9077RCTRX5ISBQF3VK1XYXC
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	02h42m28s.61
RA (top/left)	02h37m00s.77
RA (top/right)	02h39m32s.31
RA (bottom/right)	02h47m47s.29
RA (bottom/left)	02h45m31s.93

Dec (center)	+42°44′57″.1
Dec (top/left)	+43°34′57″.2
Dec (top/right)	+41°34′14″.8
Dec (bottom/right)	+41°54′05″.9
Dec (bottom/left)	+43°55′25″.3

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