Deep Sky Object in Autumn
NGC1501 (Planetary Nebula in Camelopardalis)


Date & Time: Dec 10 2020, from 23:17 to 24:24 JST(+0900)
Composed 10 shots with 6 minutes exposed
Optical: Meade 25cm(10") Schmidt-Cassegrain with conversion lens (f=1600mm, F6.3)
with BaaderPlanetarium Moon&Skyglow filter
Auto-guided with Meade LX200 Equatorial & Lacerta M-GEN
Digital Camera: Nikon D810A
Location: Ooizumi, Hokuto city, Yamanashi pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(4080×4080)
Device Size...10×10mm
Sensitivity...ISO4000, White Balance...Daylight


NGC1501 / Planetary Nebula, type III
R.A.04h 06m 59.9s (2000.0)
Dec.+60° 55' 00" (2000.0)
Apparent Size0.9'
Real Size1.1 light yrs.
Magnitude13.0
Distance4240 light yrs.
Other IDsPK 144+6.1
NGC1501 is a compact planetary nebula with a diameter little less than 1 arc minute. You can see the nebula as a bluish disk and some black spoke structures in the disk. And it seems slightly elongated in east west direction. A central star has a brightness of about 14th magnitude.



Nebulosities around the California Nebula
NGC1579

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