Barnard 163 RC12.5" from France

[franck34]

Hi,

My last image was taken on march ! Weather in France has been so bad. Very difficult to be motivated to do astrophotography, because having 2 nights shooting was so uncertain !

I could manage to expemriment my software to creat a forum export with my own data. This export is not perfect but seems to be ok.

Gradients are very present in my center town and difficult to delete !

Cilck on the image to go to my website to see the full size image.

        

 

[NOMH]

Interesting target, looks like a frog chasing a large fly! Good job.

JB

[symesie04]

Cracking image and rare target. Looks like someone has dropped a frog into a red bath of foam.

[franck34]

There is a smll bubble high up, not known, checked at Strasbourg observatory in France with Agnès Acker and Pascal Le Du.

I'm waiting for confirmation, and it will be may be my first discovery : Jo1 !!!

[pietervdv]

I hate to ruin your day, but I assume this is the planetary you are refering to?

I have discovered it on my Barnard 163 from last year and I thought I was the first aswell.

The planetary nebula was discovered in 2009 during a sky survey.

http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=IPHASX+J214032.5%2B564752

http://www.astronomie.be/pieter.vandevelde/deepsky/barnard163PN.jpg

Best regards,

Pieter