PN Abell 31 in Cancer

Hello everyone!

This is my first long exposure image with Voyager. Abell 31 is one of the apparently largest PNe in the sky. At the same time it has a very low surface brightness of about 26.9 mag/arc-sec². A shock front is forming in the southeast, where the material of the PN meets interstellar medium.

Technical details:
TAK Epsilon 130ED, 10micron GM2000 HPS II mount, Moravian G2-8300 CCD;
[OIII] 71x10 min, Ha 67x10 min, L 48x10 min, RGB 19x10 min per filter, total 40 h 30 min.
ROSA remote, France.

large version and further details

Cheers,
Markus

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I really like your widefield view of this object. Most people seem to do tight crops. Your color is just perfect, too. Congratulations.

Best,

Glenn

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Great image Mark … congrats !

All the best
Leonardo

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Thank you Glenn and Leonardo!

There are not so many PNe that are suitable for shorter focal lengths, but this one is one of them. With my big Newtonian, it would have filled half the field of view.

Cheers,
markus

Fantastic Markus - very nice! I have worked on this one recently also using data from 2017 for Ha but otherwise acquired with Voyager Array.
Your colours and processing are spot on!

Roberto

Nice job Markus. Beautiful image…

Jon

Thank you very much, Roberto and Jon!

Markus