Last night had great seeing, so I got my big rig out and collected data from the Robin’s Egg Nebula. According to NASA (https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230805.html): The nebula lies 1,500 light-years away, its shape and colour are reminiscent of a robin’s egg. The cosmic cloud spans about 3 light-years, nestled securely within the boundaries of the southern constellation Fornax. Recognized as a planetary nebula, egg-shaped NGC 1360 doesn’t represent a beginning though. Instead it corresponds to a brief and final phase in the evolution of an aging star. In fact, visible at the center of the nebula, the central star of NGC 1360 is known to be a binary star system likely consisting of two evolved white dwarf stars, less massive but much hotter than the Sun. Their intense and otherwise invisible ultraviolet radiation has stripped away electrons from the atoms in their mutually surrounding gaseous shroud. The predominant blue-green hue of NGC 1360 seen here is the strong emission produced as electrons recombine with doubly ionized oxygen atoms.

There are quite a number of distant galaxies present in the background of the image

I photographed this over 5 hours last night, using a 12″ F4 Newtonian telescope, a mono camera using red, green, blue, luminance, Hydrogen Alpha and Oxygen III filters. The image was processed in Pixinsight and finished in Photoshop.