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PM1-320
British Astronomical Association Picture of the Week 4 September 2021
Awarded AAPOD2 6 September 2021 www.aapod2.com/blog/Pm1-320

Awarded Astronomical Photo of the Day 22 September 2021 by APODGrAG apod.grag.org/2021/09/22/pm1-320/
PM1-320 is a small planetary nebula in Cygnus, close to DWB 111, the Propeller Nebula.
It was discovered by Andrea Preite-Martinez in the 1980s.
I believe this to be the first deep high-resolution image of PM1-320.
The outer parts of the nebulosity are very faint, hence 56 hours of OIII integration.
HASH records it's size as 60 arc seconds.
Picture
TARGET
Nomenclature
: PM1-320
Right Ascension: 20:10:33.6
Declination:  +44:11:48.48
Size: 70.0 arc sec
Discovery: Andrea Preite-Martinez in 1988
EQUIPMENT USED
Twin APM TMB LZOS 152 refractors
10Micron GM2000 HPS mount
Twin QSI6120 CCD cameras
Astrodon filters
IMAGE CAPTURE
Blue: 10x300"
Green: 10x300"
Lum: 15x300"
Red: 10x300"
Ha: 103x900" bin 1x1
OIII: 226x900 bin 1x1
Total Integration: 86 hours
Pixel scale: 0.265 arcsec/pixel
Field radius: 0.368 degrees
Capture dates: 20 August-3 September 2021
Capture location:  Fregenal de la Sierra, Spain

IMAGE PROCESSING
Pre-processing: CCDStack2
Post-processing: Photoshop CS2
Ha image
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OIII image
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