Abell 39

[Martthebass]

With only a couple of hours of reasonably clear skies in these parts over the last 6 weeks it’s not been the best time for imaging. So with these 2 hours I decided to do something foolish and aim at Abell 39. I think this is one of the most beautiful PNs in the sky with its almost perfect spherical symmetry. The image certainly isn’t great, I needed at least 3x the integration time to get the noise down but im just happy I could see it at all.

[glafnazur]

12 hours ago, Martthebass said:

With only a couple of hours of reasonably clear skies in these parts over the last 6 weeks it’s not been the best time for imaging. So with these 2 hours I decided to do something foolish and aim at Abell 39. I think this is one of the most beautiful PNs in the sky with its almost perfect spherical symmetry. The image certainly isn’t great, I needed at least 3x the integration time to get the noise down but im just happy I could see it at all.

Agreed, it is one of the loveliest PNs around, a beautiful object.