M27 - The Dumbbell Nebula - wide field

  
 
 
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M27 widefield
 
   
  • RA: 20:00
  • Dec: +22:43
  • Magnitude: 8.1
  • Distance: 1250 ly
  • Constellation:  Vulpecula
  • Scope: Orion ED80 @ f/7
  • Autoguider:  ST-4 in faint mode
  • Sky conditions:  Above average transparency and seeing
  • Camera:  Hap Griffin modified 350XT ISO800
  • Exposure:  10 x 5 minutes
  • Date:  August 23, 2009
Comments: I decided to do a wider field shot of M27.  Temperature was in the low 50s F.  The Dumbbell Nebula was the first planetary nebula ever discovered.  Charles Messier discovered this new class of objects on July 12, 1764.  We view M27 approximately from its equatorial plane.  A view from near one pole would probably show it as a ring and perhaps look like M57.  The central star of M27 is quite bright at magnitude 13.5 and an extremely hot blueish subdwarf at about 85,000K.