Very interesting object! I'll hopefully be able to try it in August.
Jeff Kanipe devotes a couple of pages to this little nebula in the Annals of the Deep Sky vol. 8 from page 132: "Interlude: A...
The 3-volume atlas was available in digital format (PDF) on DVD at one time by the publisher. This thread on CloudyNights for 2022 has more information and links. Owen Brazell may have something to...
VIXEN FL80S WT
Filter Ha Baader Planetarium
ZWO ASI 294MM
2x900s
22/07/2024 23:34 UT
WCO237 osservatorio
Montecatini Terme - Toscana - Italia
I also took a 15 minute photo with the...
I don't have a complete index from her articles, but entered this object in my database of observed and 'planning to observe' DSOs at that time or perhaps earlier if I ran across it in a journal...
Thanks Steve and Carlo! Also Steve for the GN designation. Using that for a Google search did produce some results. As I understand it, the GN 20.43.9 designation is only mentioned in a 1980's era...
Nice choice for OOTW! This nebula is also in Neckel and Vehrenberg's Atlas of Galactic Nebulae as GN 20.43.9 (though SIMBAD doesn't include the alias).
I haven't looked for it, but Sue French...
Now, I've never really thought of Cygnus as a summer constellation. Even when the constellation's Alpha star features prominently in the so-called "Summer Triangle" we all have read about ad nauseum...