Thursday, September 8, 2016

M27 The Dumbbell Nebula


Last night I was able to observe and take pictures of M27, known as The Dumbbell Nebula. About 1300 light-years away this planetary nebula is seen within the constellation Vulpecula. It was Charles Messier himself who discovered this nebula in 1764 and it was the first planetary nebula ever.

Of all pictures made I took three for stacking purposes, al three with different exposure time and ISO values. After stacking with DeepSkyStacker the result was edited using CS4.