Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Vulpecula (Vul)  ·  Contains:  Dumbbell Nebula  ·  M 27  ·  NGC 6853
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The Dumbbell Nebula - Round 1, GiffS
The Dumbbell Nebula - Round 1
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The Dumbbell Nebula - Round 1

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The Dumbbell Nebula - Round 1, GiffS
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The Dumbbell Nebula - Round 1

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Just starting out on this target. Unfortunately, The Dumbbell Nebula, although bright at 7.5 magnitude, is a pretty small object astronomically speaking. it's just about 8 arcminutes in diameter. Shooting it with my AT72EDII with a .8 reducer puts me at around 345 mm of focal length.  The image you see is a very very aggressive crop. The data is pretty good quality so it tolerates it fairly well but under normal circumstances this file would be 30 or 40 megabytes but it's cropped so hard it is barely 1.

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The Dumbbell Nebula - Round 1, GiffS