IC 5148 - PLANETARY NEBULA

GRUS

 (ra: 22.00,12/ dec -39:20)

November 2009, Mercedes Observatory Buenos Aires, Argentina

DATA

TYPE: Planetary Nebula

Apparent Magnitude: 11

Apparent Diameter: 2.2 arc minutes

DISTANCE: lights years

IMAGE INFORMATION

SCOPE: Celestron C8 SCT working at f5.1

CAMERA: SXVF H9

GUIDING: William Optics Zenithstar 66 with WO 0.8 x fr/ff

IMAGE ACQUISITION: AstroArt 3.0 - Control Interface 3.72 plug in

FILTERS: Astronomik Type II - Atik Filter Wheel

SKY CONDITIONS: rural skies - transparency and seeing good 

EXPOSURES: LRGB (20,20,20,20)

PROCESSING: Images Plus, CCD Sharp, Photoshop CS2

OBJECT DESCRIPTION AND IMAGE SESSION

IC 5148 is a peculiar Planetary Nebula that can be found in a rather desolate field at 77 minutes towards the west of 4.47 magnitude Lambda Grus. The object presents at almost perfect circled shape and some internals structures where revealed in above image. With a relative big apparent size, the nebula appears to be very dim but also dense with a opaque color.