NGC 6210
by Vern on Jun.21, 2006, under Astronomy, Deep sky, Planetary Nebula
The space turtle, NGC 6210 in Hercules, is a bright bluish planetary in the constellation Hercules. In the below image four jets can be seen extending outward from the central gas cloud.
Image taken on April 20, 2006 at 06:30 UT from Louisville, CO with Celestron Nexstar11 telescope, Meade F3.3 focal reducer, and Astrovid Stellacam II video camera. Camera set to integrate 128 frames, medium gamma, and 9/14 gain. Image was dark subtracted, flat field and bias corrected.
1 comment for this entry:
July 1st, 2006 on 10:10 am
I did a Google Search for planetary NGC 6210 and found your image. It looks remarkably similar to what I saw last weekend in my 6-inch Newtonian, down to the binary star nearby. Thanks