This faint planetary nebula has been discovered in March 2017 by the DSH member Trygve Prestgard. It shows very symmetric bipolar shells and extends 13 by 50 arc-sec.
Its emissions are not pure O-III, but also visible in RGB, so it could be a protoplanetary nebula.
Position: RA 18:35:26 DEC -17:01:00
Image data:
OIII-RGB (1080-140-140-140 min) total 25 h, north is up, seeing 1.0-1.5 arc-sec,
80cm f/7 Astrooptik Keller cassegrain, FLI PL-16803, Astrodon LRGB GenII filters, Prompt 7 CTIO Chile
Processing: Johannes Schedler
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