During the full moon, while film astrophotographers are sleeping, the CCD astrophotographer can still take detailed color images as seen here. The moon was one day past full, and blazing in the eastern sky, washing out the milkyway to invisibility. This object, is one of the largest planetaries in Cygnus at 61 arcsecnds, and is located about midway between Deneb and Lacerta. The planetary is fairly bright at mag 11.3, and shows hints of blue and green in the central regions. The very faint 19.1 mag central star is shown faintly here.

Instrument:  12.5" f/5 Home made Newtonian
Platform:  Astrophysics 1200 QMD
CCD Camera:  SBIG ST7E w/Enhanced Cooling
Exposure:  LRGB = 30:10:10:10 (RGB Binned 2x2)
Filters:  RGB Tricolor
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing 8/10, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  20 C
CCD Temperature:  -20 C
Processing:  Maxim DL, Photoshop, PW Pro.