Soap bubble neb - can you see it??

[ollypenrice]

In there somewhere is the Soap Bubble Nebula, a near spherical planetary only quite recently discovered. It is quite large (about a sixth of the frame) upper left of centre. Doesn't exactly dazzle the eye and the addition of RGB was quite pretty but made it vanish altogether so here's the Ha. Meade 127, couple of hours in 10 min subs.

Flickr Photo Download: VERY faint soapbubble planetary in Ha.

Olly

[Doc]

Wow Olly you amaze me with your work.

I can see it, at least I think I can. What constellation is it in?

[kev 102 42]

spotted it straight away ,never seen that before great pic..........kev

[moocher]

Yep i can see it but only becuse i`m looking for it!!! God thats faint!!!!! Super image as always though Olly!!!

Alan:)

[ollypenrice]

Cheers all. Glad I'm not imagining it. It's in Cygnus, very close to the Crescent nebula. If anyone has a widefield Crescent they may well have it without knowing.

Olly

[Beyond_Vision]

Thats a good one Olly it's showing up quite well on my main computer monitor. This was imaged by Paulo a few weeks back.

Regards

Kevin

[ollypenrice]

Well, as there's some interest in this one, here's the RGBHa version. The darned thing is even harder to see in this one so I have posted a copy in which the contrast is pushed too hard for aesthetic purposes but makes our soapy friend less slippery...

I do believe I first came across this thanks to Paulo on a French forum so my thanks to him.

Olly

[ollypenrice]

Sorry here it is, I hope.

Olly

[Psychobilly]

Much easier to see in the Ha than in the RGBHa nicely done Olley...

Peter...

[Aza]

Good stuff, looks especially clear in the Ha

[barkis]

The mono one is easily seen.

The LRGB not so easy. It is very aptly named, as it just looks like it's description. Perfectly spherical too. Amazing object.

Ron.

[MartinB]

That's great Olly. Took me ages to spot it - just to the R of the dark E. I've just been finishing off processing a Crescent image and thanks to your image I've managed to spot it on mine but nothing like as clear as yours.

[Psychobilly]

Found it in one of my widefields as well now

Peter....

[ollypenrice]

Great to see folks find it in their images. Stick 'em on the forum! We now need brainy types to tell us how to milk this object for all its worth.

Olly

[Sam]

Great image Olly, it's easy to see in the mono image, a bit trickier in the other one.