NGC1360 - Robin's Egg Nebula (James Tickner)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Fornax (For) · Contains: NGC 1360 · PGC 771982 · PGC 773043 · PGC 773645 · PGC 773674 · PGC 774325 · PGC 774706 · PGC 774792 · PGC 774885 · PGC 774931 · PGC 775013 · PGC 775292 · PGC 775618 · PGC 775980 · PGC 776600 · PGC 776631 · PGC 776825

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NGC1360 - Robin's Egg Nebula

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NGC1360 - Robin's Egg Nebula

NGC1360 is a large and relatively low-surface brightness planetary nebula in the southern constellation of Fornax. The dominant bluish-green colour that gives the nebula its nickname is produced by ionised oxygen; the reddish regions are produced by glowing hydrogen gas. In 2017 the central star was confirmed to be a binary, with a low-mass hot O-type star orbiting a white dwarf.

Data collected using O3 and H-alpha narrow band filters was used to produce the nebula image, with RGB data used only for stars. The sparseness of the star field presented some interesting challenges for both data collection and processing of the narrow band images. There were insufficient bright stars to allow plate solving to succeed during imaging, requiring a manual filter change at the start of each session and at the midnight meridian flips. Similarly, Deep Sky Stacker struggled to find enough stars for image alignment without careful adjustment of the stacking settings.

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RA (center)	03h33m13s.845
RA (top/left)	03h31m49s.710
RA (top/right)	03h33m34s.512
RA (bottom/right)	03h34m38s.200
RA (bottom/left)	03h32m53s.299

Dec (center)	-25°52′19″.80
Dec (top/left)	-25°51′33″.53
Dec (top/right)	-26°10′41″.14
Dec (bottom/right)	-25°53′00″.32
Dec (bottom/left)	-25°33′56″.89

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