Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cancer (Cnc)  ·  Contains:  13.70  ·  377 Campania  ·  IC 523  ·  PGC 1332886  ·  PGC 1333465  ·  PGC 1333773  ·  PGC 1334444  ·  PGC 1335096  ·  PGC 1335898  ·  PGC 1336149  ·  PGC 1337440  ·  PGC 1338248  ·  PGC 1341276  ·  PGC 1341637  ·  PGC 1341787  ·  PGC 1342647  ·  PGC 1342683  ·  PGC 1343257  ·  PGC 1343686  ·  PGC 1343762  ·  PGC 1344222  ·  PGC 1344614  ·  PGC 1344958  ·  PGC 1345631  ·  PGC 1345979  ·  PGC 1346094  ·  PGC 1346101  ·  PGC 1346875  ·  PGC 1346885  ·  PGC 1347057  ·  And 112 more.
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Abell 31 / Sh2-290, Göran Nilsson
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Abell 31 / Sh2-290

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Abell 31 / Sh2-290, Göran Nilsson
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Abell 31 / Sh2-290

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Abell 31 is an ancient planetary nebula in the constellation of Cancer. It is estimated to be about 2,000 light years away. Although it is one of the largest planetary nebulae in the sky, it is not very bright. The central star of the planetary nebula is a white dwarf with a spectral type of DAO (Wikipedia)

It is rather faint but turned out to be bright enough for the RASA even under a lot of moon light by the aid of the IDAS NBZ (Ha+Oiii)  filter.

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