Constellation: Aquarius
Right Ascension: 21h 04m 10.877s
Declination: −11° 21′ 48.25″
Distance: 2,000 - 4,000 ly
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NGC 7009 is a planetary nebula located in Aquarius. Of course the name comes from its resemblance to the planet Saturn. The way a planetary nebula forms of course is way different. A low mass star loses its outer layers during it's red giant phase before shrinking down in to a white dwarf. The nebula is glows from the ionization from the now white dwarf.

Telescope: Explore Scientific 127 Refractor
Camera: ZWO 2600 MM
Constellation: Cygnus
Right Ascension: 20h 01m 48.1s
Declination: +33° 31' 33"
Distance: 28,000 ly
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NGC 6857 was originally categorized as a planetary nebula, but its actually just a denser part of a larger HII region called Sharpless 2-100.

Telescope: Explore Scientific 127 Refractor
Camera: ZWO 2600 MM
Constellation: Sagittarius
Right Ascension: 18h 03m 37s
Declination: −24° 23′ 12″
Distance: 4,100 ly
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Messier 8 is a large emission nebula located in Sagittarius. Intense ultraviolet radiation emitted from hot young stars in the nebula cause the atomic hydrogen to glow a pinkish red. A star forming region, the nebula contains the open cluster NGC 6530 along with several Bok globules, which are dark collapsing areas of the nebula, along with 4 Herbig-Haro objects which are patches of nebulosity associated with newly born stars. The entire nebula spans a radius of 55 ly x 20 ly. It is one of only two nebula in the northern hemisphere barely visible as a patch of nebulosity. The other being the Orion Nebula.

Telescope: Explore Scientific 127 Refractor
Camera: ZWO 2600 MM
Constellation: Monoceros
Right Ascension: 6h 39m 10s
Declination: +8° 45′
Distance: 2,500 ly
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So named because of its changing light and dark patterns on the nebula is though to be caused by dust clouds near the illuminating source by the star R Monocerotis casting shadows on the nebula. The star itself a T Tauri variable, is encased dense clouds of dust.

The patterns are know to change over weeks and months. Discovered by William Herschel and studied by Edin Hubble.

Telescope: Explore Scientific 127 Refractor
Camera: ZWO 1600 MM
Constellation: Perseus
Right Ascension: 04h 03m 15.9s
Declination: +51° 18′ 54″
Distance: 11,700 ly
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Emission nebula NGC 1491, sometimes called the Fossil Footprint Nebula located in Perseus. Located about 10,700 light years away. Illuminated by a 11.2 magnitude star actually blowing a bubble in the nebula from its intense stellar "wind".

Telescope: Explore Scientific 127 Refractor
Camera: ZWO 1600 MM
Constellation: Orion
Right Ascension: 05h 35m 17.3s
Declination: −05° 23′ 28″
Distance: 1,300 ly
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Messier 42, The Orion Nebula is one of the most iconic deep sky objects and one of the brightest nebula, it can be seen as a fuzzy star in the sword of Orion figure. Illuminated by a central cluster of stars, the four primary ones are referred to as the Trapezium, for their shape of a trapezoid. As a stellar nursery it is in the process of forming new stars as pockets of the nebula collapse under gravity.

Telescope: EDT 80mm Reftactor
Camera: ZWO A071 Color