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IPHASX J015624.9+652830
Astrobin Image Of The Day 11 September 2019
A very faint planetary nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia. One of my favorite planetary nebulae. The appearance of two slightly offset concentric rings suggests that it is a bipolar nebula almost viewed along its axis.
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Nomenclature
:  Fe 6,  Ferrero 6, PN-G 129.6+03.4, J015625.5+652827, IPHASX J015624.9+652830
Right Ascension: 01:56:25.25
Declination: +65:28:29.10
Size: 3.5 arc min
Discovery: Independently discovered by the amateur astronomer Laurent Ferrero in November 2013 but spectroscopically confirmed by Laurence Sabin in 2011 as part of the IPHAS survey

EQUIPMENT USED
Twin APM TMB LZOS 152 refractors
10Micron GM2000 HPS mount
Twin QSI6120 CCD cameras
Astrodon filters
IMAGE CAPTURE
5nm H-Alpha: 27x1800 bin 2x2
3nm OIII: 23x1800 bin 2x2 + 49x600 bin 3x3
Luminance: 21x300 bin 1x1
Red: 24x300 bin 1x1
Green: 29x300 bin 1x1
Blue: 25x300 bin 1x1
Total integration: 41.4 hours
Pixel scale: 0.533 arcsec/pixel
Field radius: 0.269 degrees
Capture dates: 24-31 August 2019
Capture location:  Fregenal de la Sierra, Spain
IMAGE PROCESSING
Pre-processing: CCDStack2
Post-processing: Photoshop CS2
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