Kn 26

Posted by dcrowson
on Sunday, August 28, 2022
Kronberger 26 (Lan 384, PN G084.7-08 and others) is a quadrupolar planetary nebula located in Cygnus. Quadrupolar means that the planetary has two sets of bipolar lobes. More information can be found here - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1301.3149.

The nebulosity on the right of the image appears to be part of Sharpless 114.

Ha – 26x1800s – 780 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 8x300s – 40 minutes each – binned 2x2

900 minutes total exposure – 15 hours

Imaged over six nights in September, 2021 from Dark Sky New Mexico at Rancho Hidalgo (Animas, New Mexico) with a SBIG STF-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT12RCT at f/8 2432mm.

HaRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/52264583255/sizes/l/
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