Nébuleuse de l'Haltère

It is about 1,250 light-years away, according to the parallaxes measured by Gaia, and covers 6.7 arcminutes. It owes its name, the Dumbbell, to John Herschel, who described it as shaped like a dumbbell. In the photo, a blue-green body carries two lobes edged with red, at the top and bottom, and a paler bluish halo closes the oval on either side, in a field crowded with stars.

Sources: Wikipédia en français, Nébuleuse de l'Haltère, NASA, catalogue Messier de Hubble, Messier 27. A figure wrong? Report it.

Designation

M27 · NGC 6853

Family

Nebula

Constellation

Vulpecula

Shots taken

1

Album date

15 October 2026

Cumulative integration

not logged

Instrument

Unistellar eQuinox 2

The album date is the one the photo album gives the file, not the date of the shot: the device burns none into this image.