Observation by Peter Goodhew FRAS: Abell 34

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Peter Goodhew FRAS

Observer

Peter Goodhew FRAS

Observed

2024 Dec 28 - 13:26

Uploaded

2025 Jan 09 - 13:29

Objects

Abell 34

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Constellation

Hydra

Field centre

RA: 09^h45^m
Dec: -13°10'
Position angle: -1°02'

Field size

0°17' × 0°15'

Equipment

APM TMB LZOS 152 refractors
QHYCCD QHY268 MM Pro cameras
10micron GM2000 HPS mount

Exposure

90 hours 40 minutes HaOIIIRGB

Location

Fregenal de la Sierra, Spain

Target name

Abell 34

Title

Abell 34

About this image

One of the most beautiful planetary nebulae in the Abell catalog. It's very faint.
Revisiting it for the third time with even deeper data.
Image captured on my robotic telescopes in Spain.
More information at https://www.imagingdeepspace.com/abell-34-986364.html

Files associated with this observation

Abell34 V2 crop.jpg (107.5 kB)

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Adam Rawlinson, Callum Potter, Tim Haymes, Duncan Hale-Sutton, Carl Frederick Hansen

Comments

Duncan Hale-Sutton, 2025 Jan 09 - 21:35 UTC

This is amazing. It looks like a perfect soap bubble. I am also curious to see that there is a galaxy behind the bubble at it's right hand edge and what looks like some sort of red emission below that. Is this to do with the galaxy or the edge of the bubble?

Peter Goodhew FRAS, 2025 Jan 10 - 00:20 UTC

Thanks Dale. Yes the red emission is H-alpha from the nebula and not connected with the galaxy. If you look closely there's another little galaxy just off the edge - between the 4 and 5 o'clock position.

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