A short report this month as all five observations were submitted by one section member.
Ian Papworth, based in Bedfordshire, sent in five digital images of deep sky objects.
NGC 6888 is an emission nebula in the constellation of Cygnus. Also in Cygnus are NGC 6992, the Eastern Veil, a part of the Veil nebula supernova remnant; and beta Cygni, also known as Albireo, a well – known double star.
Ian also imaged M27, the Dumbbell planetary nebula in Cygnus and NGC 7023 the Iris reflection nebula in Cepheus.
At an apparent magnitude of 7.5, M27 was the first object of its kind to be discovered by Charles Messier in 1764. With and angular size of 8 x 5 arcminutes it can be seen with binoculars. The central white dwarf is magnitude 14 however and is more easily seen in images.
Dave Finnigan