Description: This image is a new planetary nebula discovered by the INT/WFC Photometric Hydrogen-Alpha Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane (IPHAS). It is a two-colour image, red for H-alpha and green for [OIII]. North is to the right and East is to the top. The nebula was confirmed to be a relatively old planetary nebula using the ISIS spectrograph on the William Herschel Telescope.

Credit: Laurence Sabin, Nick Wright and the IPHAS collaboration.

Date: 2006.

Technical information: Telescope: 2.5-m Isaac Newton Telescope.
Instrument: Wide Field Camera.
Detector: EEV.
Filters and exposure times: 50 minutes in Hα and 30 minutes in [OIII].

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