Jones 1/ PK104-29.1
Planetary Nebula in Pegasus

RA: 23h 35m 53.5s Dec: +30° 28' 01 Mag: 15 , Size: 5.5'(3.5 ly), Distance: 2300 ly
Direction - North is at 2 o'clock position, East is left

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   Jones 1 is a type IIIb very faint planetary nebula in the constellation Pegasus and discovered by Rebecca Jones of Harvard University in 1941. The blue-green expanding outer shell of OIII ionized gas is caused by the expelled outer layers of the hot mag 16 blue star seen in the center. This occurs near the end of a stars life. Over 90% of stars will end in this phase before becoming a white dwarf while the remainder will become supernovae. Also visible at the bottom are small pockets of Hydrogen gasses.

Location & Date Backyard, Abbott Observatory- Long Island, NY, August
Temperature - Low 70's F
Telescope Deep Sky Instruments RC10C , F/7.3, Losmandy G11 Gemini, Prime Focus, Image scale 0.82 arcsec/pixel
Camera SBIG ST-2000XM w/CFW8, AO8
Baader HaLRGB AR Filters
CCD temp -15°C
Exposure Times (Ha) 50x15m (R)10x15m (G) 14x15m (B) 14x15m Bin 1x1
Other Information Image planning - CCD Navigator
Image acquisition/focus/guiding/dither - CCD Autopilot4 w/CCDSoft/TheSky6/PinPoint
Image Processing * CCDStack - Calibration, Normalize, Alignment, Mean Combine, Deconvolution
* Adobe CS4 - (Ha+R)GB combine, Levels, Curves, Sharpening, Noise reduction, JPEG conversion

© 2013 Michael A. Siniscalchi