M27 The Dumbbell Nebula with the Seestar 50s scope
M27 is located 900 light years away in Vulpecula, The Dumbbell Nebula (also known as the Apple Core Nebula, Messier 27, and NGC 6853) is a planetary nebula or a dying star blowing off its outer atmosphere.
You can see this nebulosity surrounding a white dwarf in the constellation Vulpecula,
The Dumbbell Nebula is located at a distance of about 1200 light-years away from Earth.
Shining at Magnitude 7.5 it is one of the brightest PN and easily visible in any telescope and it’s diameter is about 8 Arc-minutes.
Watching for early Perseid meteors/Exhausted I fell asleep in my observing chair and when I finally woke up,
I realized that both scopes had gone for longer than I was planning, thus the field rotation reduced my FOV significantly, causing me to have to crop to the center of the chip, but the image still came out nice, even if a bit closer up than I was originally shooting for.
Captured with Two ZWO Seestars 50s Automated scopes/ZWO Sony 462 Chip cameras.
2 hour total integration time. Stacked in Nebulosity 4,
Pixinsight and Adobe Raw CC for post processing.
Captured from my backyard in Dayton, Ohio on 08/09/2024.
Best Regards,
John Chumack
www.galacticimages.com
