Nebulae
Messier 76 Little Dumbbell Nebula in Perseus

This bipolar planetary nebula is composed of material ejected from two stars. It is around 2500 lightyears distant and around 1.2 lightyears in size. As the nebula is less than 3 arcminutes across, it is really stretching the capabilities of an 8-inch telescope.

This LRGB image is the result of 4h of data capture, over two evenings in September 2021. It consists of 2h of capture through a luminance filter and 2h of capture in RGB, equally split between channels. A total of 246 one-minute exposures were integrated, from a ZWO ASI2600MM Pro camera though an 8-inch Teleskop-Service Ritchey-Chretien reflector.

Date: 07/09/2021

Location: Horsham, West Sussex

Photographer: Graham Wilcock

Messier 76 Little Dumbbell Nebula in Perseus

This bipolar planetary nebula is composed of material ejected from two stars. It is around 2500 lightyears distant and around 1.2 lightyears in size. As the nebula is less than 3 arcminutes across, it is really stretching the capabilities of an 8-inch telescope.

This LRGB image is the result of 4h of data capture, over two evenings in September 2021. It consists of 2h of capture through a luminance filter and 2h of capture in RGB, equally split between channels. A total of 246 one-minute exposures were integrated, from a ZWO ASI2600MM Pro camera though an 8-inch Teleskop-Service Ritchey-Chretien reflector.

Date: 07/09/2021

Location: Horsham, West Sussex

Photographer: Graham Wilcock