Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Did I find the Dumbbell Nebula or not?

I was out with my Orion Spaceprobe 130ST telescope last night around 2:30 a.m. and I was looking for the Dumbbell Nebula. I was looking in the right area and found I really dim, small fuzzy patch. (Don't get my wrong, I'm not expecting color or Hubble images, but I am pretty sure that the Dumbbell Nebula is at least supposed to be a bright nebula that has a somewhat bow-tie shape to it) Is there anything that I may have found by accident instead, or is what I saw really it? Is my telescope too small to gather enough light from it to even form the shape?

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