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Abell 5
A small faint rarely-imaged and strangely-structured planetary nebula in the constellation Perseus.
The OIII signal was extremely faint, and similar to the Ha signal - so was discarded.
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Nomenclature
: Abell 5
Right Ascension: 02:52:15.10
Declination:  +50.35.54.06
Size: 136 arc secs
EQUIPMENT USED
Twin APM TMB LZOS 152 refractors
10Micron GM2000 HPS mount
Twin QSI6120 CCD cameras
Astrodon filters
IMAGE CAPTURE
Blue: 5x300"
Green: 6x300"
Red: 5x300"
Ha: 40x900" bin 1x1
Total Integration: 11 hours 20 minutes
Pixel scale: 0.265 arcsec/pixel
Field radius: 0.148 degrees
Capture dates: 27 February - 19 March 2022
Capture location:  Fregenal de la Sierra, Spain

IMAGE PROCESSING:
CCDStack2 and Photoshop CS2
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