Deep Sky Object in Winter
NGC2438 (Planetary Nebula in Puppis)


Date & Time: Mar 9 2019, from 21:12 to 21:48 JST(+0900)
Composed 8 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 & Pictor 201XT
Digital Camera: Canon EOS 6D (Remodeled)
Location: Ooizumi, Hokuto city, Yamanashi pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(1528×1528)
Device Size...10×10mm, Sensitivity...ISO4000


NGC2438 / Planetary Nebula, type IV+II
R.A.07h 41m 50.4s (2000.0)
Dec.-14°44' 06" (2000.0)
Apparent Size64.0"
Real Size0.90 light yrs.
Magnitude10.1
Distance2900 light yrs.
NGC2438 is a bright and conspicuous planetary nebula bathed in an open cluster of M46 in Puppis. The nebula has a diameter of about an arc minute, showing greenish and reddish colors in center and shell respectively. We are seeing remnant gas of a dead star positioned front of M46. Although the nebula and M46 have no relation each other, you can appreciate the tiny nebula impressively surrounded with fine stars configuring the cluster.

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