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MWP1 - The Methuselah Nebula, Roger Nichol
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MWP1 - The Methuselah Nebula

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MWP1 - The Methuselah Nebula, Roger Nichol
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MWP1 - The Methuselah Nebula

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Motch-Werner-Pakull 1 is a very large, unusually shaped and rarely imaged planetary nebula. It is particularly old for a PN, at around 150,000 years, hence its nickname.  It is about 4500 light years away in the constellation of Cygnus.  Its bi-polar shape suggests that it is formed by a binary star system.

This is a very faint nebula, and the 17 hours I have gathered on this is really not enough - it could do with 2 or 3 times that amount of integration with this OSC setup. Maybe next year...

There is another faint circular PN to the north-east of MWP1. This is ALV-1, found in 2009 by the Portuguese amateur astrophotographer Filipe Alves.

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MWP1 - The Methuselah Nebula, Roger Nichol