Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Lynx (Lyn)  ·  Contains:  PK164+31.1
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Jones-Emberson 1 (aka Headphone nebula), Ashraf AbuSara
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Jones-Emberson 1 (aka Headphone nebula)

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Jones-Emberson 1 (aka Headphone nebula)

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This planetary nebula was pleasant surprise and a rewarding narrowband image under a full moon. Galaxy season has been very tough so far from my backyard due to the endless clouds, bad seeing and breaks in the clouds came on full moon nights. Not many narrowband targets avaiable at this time, but this one was a nice surprise. Initially I planned to image it in HOO, but I accidentally took Sii data, and while the subs did not seem to have any signal, the stack did. Initially I thought I wasted time on collecting Sii data, but it turned out to my eyes a beautiful target in dynamic narrowband (Foraxx) with SHO data. In this color palette, it bears resemblance to the Ring nebula. 

It is 1600 Ly away, and was discovered in 1930s. It is the end result of a dying star like our sun. It is 4 light years in diameter.

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Jones-Emberson 1 (aka Headphone nebula), Ashraf AbuSara