3 planetaries from Monday night

[nytecam]

First clearish night in ages and suffering photon starvation ! Here's three small PNe in...

NGC 40 Bowtie - glowing in H-alpha red and my favourite PN !

M76 Little Dumbbell in Per

NGC 7662 Blue Snowball - brilliantly glowing in OIII on green/blue spectral boundary - note exp duration + half scope aperture blocked  !

Used my Meade 30cm SCT + SX Lodestar-Cx2 OSC camera - data on images - images cropped and enlarged 50% to 1500mm EFL.

Hope they are of interest ;-)

Nytecam

[Martin Meredith]

Some great colours there! I can never manage to prise much out of the planetaries -- probably using too small a focal length or too long an exposure for some of them.

Martin