NGC 7662 Blue snowball Nebula- Astronomy and astrophotography CCD camera images

23/09/2005
Object name: NGC7662 Blue snowball Nebula
Popular name: Blue snowball Nebula
Object type: Planetary Nebula
Magnitude: 9.2
Size: 0.62 0
Position angle: 0
Classification: PN
Apparent RA: 23 25 53.9 Apparent Dec: +42 32 08
Constellation: Andromeda

A black and white shot of this small planetary. Taken with the 2x barlow on my 200mm/1000mm newtonian giving an image scale of 0.65 arc seconds per pixel. The FWHM on that dim star is about 2 arc seconds... which isn't bad really. I have a spectrum of this object here

Captured in k3, stacked in registax. RL in IRIS, finsihed in photoshop

Exposure Details :

2x Barlow 200x7s on 200mm @ F5 with SC3.5

Curdridge Observatory, Southampton,UK