Exposures: 120 minutes each of Ha and OIII (15 min subs) for a total of 4 hrs.
M27 or the Dumbbell Nebula is a bipolar planetary nebula located about 1,360 light years distant. Discovered in 1764, this was the first hint of what will become of our sun when it expells its outer shell of hydrogen and other gasses a few billion yearas from now. Click here for a good read on our sun's ultimate fate.
Color mapped with Ha assigned to red, OIII to blue, and a combined Ha+OIII channel to green.
Field of View = 52 x 35 arc minutes
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