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Titan Nebula (PaStDr 9), Ara Jerahian
Titan Nebula (PaStDr 9), Ara Jerahian

Titan Nebula (PaStDr 9)

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Titan Nebula (PaStDr 9), Ara Jerahian
Titan Nebula (PaStDr 9), Ara Jerahian

Titan Nebula (PaStDr 9)

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Originally discovered by the team consisting of Dana Patchick (USA), Xavier Strottner (France) and Marcel Drechsler (Germany), this candidate planetary nebula can only be described as both enormous and extremely faint.  The name, Titan Nebula, coined for PaStDr 9 (PN-G: 140.4-21.2) by the discovery team is quite apt.

Although the image produced by the discovery team consisted of 129 hours of total exposures from 3 Tak Epsilons, I could only manage 46 hours of total integration time over 11 separate nights with my single refractor, considering the weather and seeing where I live.  The final Ha & OIII combination was R: Ha, G: 0.5Ha+0.5OIII, B: OIII.

I bow to the astonishing image produced by the discovery team!  This is the best I could do.

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Titan Nebula (PaStDr 9), Ara Jerahian