This bright planetary nebula lies in the constellation of Vulpecula the fox.
I took this image using my 80mm, f/6.3 refractor, a Vixen Atlux mount, PHD auto-guiding, an Atik 383L mono CCD camera and a set of Astronomic narrowband filters, H-alpha, SII and OIII.
I captured five minute sub frames with matching dark frames and combined them with flat fields to reduce the effects of vignetting in the final image. The total exposure times were 40 minutes using H-alpha and SII, and 60 minutes using an OIII filter.
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