For the past 15 years, Ive been trying to see the planetary nebula PN G 089.3-02.2 (Minkowski 1-77, PK 89-2 1). It looks like a star through everything at any power. Well, there were a couple times it didn’t look quite stellar, but I could chalk that up to the seeing. Through my largest scopes I occasionally thought it looked slightly bluish (averted imagination?). It doesn’t respond to an OIII or an H-beta. With a UHC it looks a shade brighter with respect to the mag 11 star 1.3′ in PA 118° than it does without the filter. Whoopee.
Has anyone seen this look like anything other than a star? Maybe Jimi can try this with his big, wonkin' scope.
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