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The Ear Nebula, Sven Eklund

The Ear Nebula

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The Ear Nebula, Sven Eklund

The Ear Nebula

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Description

The rarely imaged Ear Nebula ( IPHASX J205013.7 + 465518 ) is a bipolar planetary nebula in the constellation Cygnus. It is a relatively old and was discovered by IPHAS WFC Photometric H-alpha Survey as late as in 2005. The object has an angular size of 6 arcmin with the bright inner region spanning 1 arcmin.

All exposures are unguided 120s at f/2 and binned 1x1. A standard HOO-palette was used. The image is drizzled and cropped.

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