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Nebula · Aquila

NGC 6781

A planetary nebula in Aquila, discovered by William Herschel in 1788.

Le Cœur et l'Âme · Photograph by the author · 3h 47m of exposure, DwarfLab DWARF 3

NGC 6781, duration not logged
NGC 6781 duration not logged · Unistellar eQuinox 2

It lies about 1,610 light-years away, a distance drawn from the parallax of its central star measured by the Gaia satellite, and covers only 1.9 arcminutes. In the photo, it is a small red ring with a pale, bluish hollow, thicker and brighter on its left and towards the bottom, lost in the middle of a field crowded with stars.

Source: Wikipédia en français, NGC 6781. A figure wrong? Report it.

duration not logged 1 shot

0 towards 25h 12m · cumulative integration on this object

Temps d'intégration : the total exposure time, the sum of every exposure stacked on an object.

Designation
NGC 6781
Family
Nebula
Constellation
Aquila
Shots taken
1
Album date
4 September 2026
Cumulative integration
not logged

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.

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0 towards 25h 12m · cumulative integration on this object

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0 towards 25h 12m · cumulative integration on this object

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