Minkowski 1-64 (M1-64) (lowenthalm)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Lyra (Lyr) · Contains: PGC 200360 · PGC 2063184 · PGC 2064101 · PGC 62489 · PK064+15.1

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Minkowski 1-64 (M1-64)

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Minkowski 1-64 (M1-64)

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

Its was finally clear with good seeing the last couple nights, but of course the moon was nearly full. So, I took out my Explore Scientific UHC filter, which has very high transmissivity in wavelengths between and including the H-alpha to the OIII lines, and also from 650 to 700nm, which includes H-alpha, S-II and N-II.

I took a couple of images with just an IR-CUT filter to get good star colors and then three more with the UHC filter and did some LRGB processing for the background field, and more narrow-band style processing for the nebula itself.

There aren't many images to be found of this nebula. None that I could find showed the central star, which seems to show here and in fact looks like it might be a double star. These "stars" might just be unresolved faint features in the central bluish part of the nebula. Lots of faint distant anonymous galaxy clusters also showed up - all those groups of faint fuzzy "stars" in various parts of the field. Not bad considering the moon was blazing about 60 degrees away.

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RA (center)	18h50m04s.220
RA (top/left)	18h50m02s.581
RA (top/right)	18h49m07s.310
RA (bottom/right)	18h50m05s.639
RA (bottom/left)	18h51m01s.166

Dec (center)	+35°14′33″.61
Dec (top/left)	+35°27′13″.70
Dec (top/right)	+35°09′29″.25
Dec (bottom/right)	+35°01′53″.93
Dec (bottom/left)	+35°19′35″.85

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