![]() | Description: To the left of this image you can see a rather fuzzy blob. This is a binary star in which one of the stars is dying. While not as spectacular as the Hubble image of the nebula, its distictive `butterfly' shape can still be made out.
Image information: Stacked, dark-subtracted, registered combination of 42 x 10s white light images. Image taken 04/04/2007 21:00 UT. |
Physical information: Magnitude: 10.0, size: 55", central star: mag. 11.2.