RA: 07h 57.5m Dec: +53º 25' Mag: 14, Size: 4(ly), Distance: 1600(ly)
RA: 07h 57.5m Dec: +53º 25' Mag: 14, Size: 4(ly), Distance: 1600(ly)
PK 164+30.1 is a planetary nebula in the constellation Lynx. The nebula has a low surface brightness with two brighter lobes. The outer red shell of expanding gasses expelled from the mag 16.8 blue star in the center are mainly hydrogen and the inner blue/green gasses are mainly oxygen. The inner gasses are thin enough to allow galaxies and stars behind it to be easily seen.
PK 164+30.1 was first discovered by astronomers Jones and Emberson in 1939 (hence the name of Jones-Emberson 1) and later cataloged by Czechoslovakian astronomers Perek and Kohoutek in 1967. The unusual number is based on the galactic coordinate system relative to our galaxy instead of its relative position to Earth.
| Location & Date |
Backyard, Abbott Observatory - Nov. 21-22, 2009 XCM color camera and Nov & Dec 2010 using the XM mono camera |
| Telescope | Deep Sky Instruments RC10C , F/7.3 on a Losmandy G11 Gemini, Prime Focus, Image scale 0.82 arcsec/pixel |
| Camera |
SBIG ST-2000XCM color camera, AO8 SBIG ST-2000XM mono camera, AO8 Baader HaLRGB AR Filters (XM camera) CCD temp -15°C |
| Exposure Times |
XCM color camera - 25 x 15 Minutes (6.25 hours), Bin 1x1 XM mono camera - 52x15 H-alpha (13 hours), 39x15 Lum (9.75 hours), Bin 1x1 |
| Other Information |
Image planning - CCD Navigator Image acquisition/focus/guiding/dither - CCD Autopilot4 w/CCDSoft/TheSky6/PinPoint |
| Image Processing |
* Images Plus 3.75 - Calibration, Normalize, Alignment, Min Max Avg Combine, Deconvolution * FITS Liberator 3 - stretching * Adobe CS4 - Ha+L combine, XCM color combine w/Ha+Lum composite, Levels, Curves, Sharpening, Cropping, NR, JPEG conversion |
