"The large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything so peripheral as some complicated molecular structure on a minor planet orbiting a very average star in the outer suburbs of a fairly typical galaxy."

— Steven Hawking

Planetary Nebula

By ebfaulkner6a at Fri, 10/03/2014 - 7:19pm

This image appears in the October issue of Astronomy Magazine, and seemed to be a challenge for me to image, so that I did, while always trying to get the star that is located inside the ring of this 12.5 magnitude 42 second diameter nebula.

Planetary Nebula

Tough one

Submitted by kuky
on Sat, 10/04/2014 - 12:45pm

Nice job

Thanks

Submitted by ebfaulkner6a
on Sun, 10/05/2014 - 1:14pm

Thanks Kuky, appreciate that.