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NGC7027 (Planetary Nebula, in Cygnus)
Observer: Andrew Cooper (e-mail: acooper@pobox.com, web: http://www.siowl.com/)
Instrument: 46-cm Dobsonian reflector Location: TIMPA, near Tucson, Arizona, United States
Light pollution: light Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Aug 28 06:22:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1293
Small, bright, vivid green!! one fellow observer commented on emerald, I would call it a rich teal, central star to one side of a small fan shaped nebula
NGC7027 (Planetary Nebula, in Cygnus)
Observer: John Callender (e-mail: jbc@west.net, web: http://www.west.net/~jbc/)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Carpinteria, CA, USA
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: fair
Time: Wed Jul 2 08:20:00 1997 UT Obs. no.: 182
Per Burnham's, a mag 9 planetary, 18" x 11". At 49x I at first mistook it for a star, but then noticed that it appeared slightly oblong, and refused to come to a point at best focus. At 244x I could tell that it was elongated in a northwest/southeast direction. The SE side seemed slightly more tenuous at the edges than the NW side under averted vision. Interestingly, the Tirion atlas (and the dObjects observation record), treats it as a bright nebula, not a planetary. Burhnam's notes that it has "the richest spectrum of all the planetaries"; apparently someone has since figured out that it wasn't actually a planetary.
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