KjPn8 Tubular Planetary Nebula

[drjolo]

KjPn8 is not among the most common imaged targets - although you may already have captured it, because it is pretty close to famous Bubble nebula and M52 cluster. It is faint and unusually shaped object with apparent dimensions 14x4 arc minutes. Distance to KjPn8 is estimated to 5,200 light years. It has bright core with apparent dimensions 4x6 arc seconds. 

Image below was made with QHY163M camera and Meade ACF 10" telescope on EQ6 mount. It is total over 12 hours of exposure in Ha and RGB bands under my suburban sky.

 

Inverted Ha band only:

Thanks for watching!

[iansmith]

Great image, nice to see a rare planetary nebula!

Cheers, Ian

[peter shah]

rarely imaged and really nicely done

[drjolo]

Thank you!  

[swag72]

Mmm.... nice.... what an interesting target ????

[tooth_dr]

Cool! I imaged the bubble last night so must have a look for this.  

[drjolo]

26 minutes ago, tooth_dr said:

Cool! I imaged the bubble last night so must have a look for this.  

I located KjPn8 at your image  

[toxic]

wow i didnt know it was there lol well done Lucas