NGC 7009 - 4.9.2021 at 00.19 Orimattila, Artjärvi, Tähtikallio Observation number 101437

Visibility III / V

Toni Veikkolainen, Veikko Mäkelä, Rauno Päivinen, Kari Laihia, Christos Oscar Kambiselis, Keski-Uudenmaan Altair

Saturn's fog remains quite low in Finland but is still descriptive. The protrusions protruding from the edges of the bright spherical center were a little confusingly even star-shaped.

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Additional information

Observation target
- Deep space object
Designation
- NGC 7009
Constellation
- Aquarius
Field of view
28 arc minutes
Weather
- Hieman pilviä, hieman tuulta, Kuu horisontin alla

Darkness
- Good
Seeing
- Good
Limiting magnitude
- 6
Nebulae
- Planetary nebula
  
  Planetary nebula is the remnant of a death star. It could be ring-shaped, disc-like or spread out rather irregularly.
  
  With the exception of some nearest objects planetary nebulae have a small apparent diameter and they need a rather big instrument to be visible.
  
  Planetary nebula M27 aka The Dumbbell Nebula in Vulpecula. Image Juha Parvio.
  
  M76 aka The Little Dumbbell Nebula in Perseus. Image Rauno Päivinen.

Technical information

Alluna RC16, C415 / 3320, Moravian G4-16000 EC Mark II, with filter L 10 x 120 s, 20 x bias, 20 x dark, 12 x flat, 3x binning, cropped image

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NGC 7009 - 4.9.2021 at 00.19 Orimattila, Artjärvi, Tähtikallio Observation number 101437