Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people

— Carl Sagan

Planetary Nebula

By ebfaulkner6a at Fri, 10/03/2014 - 6:19pm

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 - 11:45am

Nice job

Thanks

Submitted by ebfaulkner6a
on Sun, 10/05/2014 - 12:14pm

Thanks Kuky, appreciate that.