Name: The "crab" nebula

Constellation:Taurus

Instrument: 8-inch reflector with a skywatcher coma corrector and a modified Nikon D3300

Exposure time:16 Five-minute exposures at ISO 800.

Star Chart from Michael Vlasov's Deep sky hunter star atlas available on line https://www.deepskywatch.com/deep-sky-hunter-atlas.html

  
 

Magnitude: 8.4

Angular size: 7' X 5'

This is a planetary nebula that are the remains of a supernova that occurred in 1054 AD. The name for this nebula comes from a sketch made of the nebula by William Parsons in 1842-3. The angular size of the nebula is below the 10' limit but the nebula's nature makes it worth imaging.  Therefore, I included it on the list.

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