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Abell 56

Abell 56 is 206 arc seconds planetary nebula in Aquila.  Until recent;y it was thought that Abell 56 only had Ha emissions.  That changed recently when Yann Sty's amazing wide field image showed a presence of OIII https://www.astrobin.com/full/6bblb5/F/
Thanks to Marcel Drechsler for bringing this to our attention.
So Sven Eklund and I set about capturing some 10 hours of OIII data. The signal is quite faint, and shows no detailed morphology, other than a ring shape sitting at the heart of Abell 56.
Data Capture: Sven Eklund and Peter Goodhew
Data calibration and integration: Sven Eklund
Image processing: Peter Goodhew
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TARGET
Nomenclature
: Abell 56
Right Ascension: 19:40:43.84
Declination:  +02:30:31.8
Size: 183 arc seconds
EQUIPMENT USED
Twin APM TMB LZOS 152 refractors, Celestron EdgeHd 14"
10Micron GM2000 HPS mount, iOptron CEM120
Twin QSI6120 CCD cameras, ZWO ASI6200M Pro
Astrodon filters
IMAGE CAPTURE
Blue: 13x600"
Green: 14x300"
Red: 14x300"
Ha: 40x900" bin 1x1, 82x300" bin 2x2
OIII: 32x900" bin 1x1, 24x300" bin 2x2
Total Integration: 30 hours 15 minutes
Pixel scale: 0.530 arcsec/pixel
Field radius: 0.160 degrees
Capture dates: 10 September - 17 October 2022
Capture location:  Fregenal de la Sierra, Spain
IMAGE PROCESSING:
PixInsight and Photoshop
Ha image
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OIII Image
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