Is this a PN?

ZWO ASI533MC Pro NGC7000 NGC Objects Deep Sky Nebula
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Oscar H. avatar
Oscar H. avatar
was looking around my NGC7000 image and saw a faint circle, so I boosted the brightness on the image and marked the location of the thing, and I'm asking what PN is this? if it is one?

within NGC7000:

ASI533MC Pro, ZWO UV-IR cut, 953mm focal length scope, 0.813"/px resolution, 3.76um pixels



cropped:
Brian Puhl avatar
Brian Puhl avatar
I've glanced through my data sets, and a few other folks data from this specific area and nothing like this appears there.   I suspect this is artifacting.   It does not exist.
Dale Penkala avatar
Dale Penkala avatar
was looking around my NGC7000 image and saw a faint circle, so I boosted the brightness on the image and marked the location of the thing, and I'm asking what PN is this? if it is one?

within NGC7000:

ASI533MC Pro, ZWO UV-IR cut, 953mm focal length scope, 0.813"/px resolution, 3.76um pixels



cropped:

I looked at my data set from a couple years ago and I don’t see it either. I would suggest running it through PI’s Annotation script and see what comes up. My guess is probably nothing especially if its a newer discovery, but you never know.
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