Last week was the first time I saw this Planetary Nebula. It's the second closest to us and is huge at a 1.6 degree diameter. I first tried with an 80mm finder with a UHC filter but no dice. My skies were about 20.8 SQM. I did pick up the brightest NE section in my 22" scope at 128x with a UHC. This portion passed between stars SAO 39734 and SAO 39710 and went across the entire field. I spent about 20 minutes under a hood from this location to get the best views that I could. It was pretty challenging.
I was wondering if others have seen this in less aperture and wider-field scopes (or finders (:> ).
Last edited by morsie; October 21st, 2020 at 01:11 PM.
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