NGC 6879 in Sagitta

on Monday, November 28, 2016

I wasn’t sure what to expect from imaging this planetary nebula, most images I found only showed a small blue dot. It looks like I ended up with the same type of image. This planetary nebula is found in the constellation Sagitta and is magnitude 12.5, and very small. Cropping, zooming and manipulating the planetary nebula region revealed no details.

Tech Specs: This image is composed of 60 x 15 second images at ISO 3,200 with 5 x 15 second darks and 5 x 1/4000 second bias frames using a Meade LX90 12” telescope and Canon 6D camera mounted on a Celestron CGEM-DX mount. Imaging was done on October 5, 2016 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania.

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