Formed when a star puffed off its outer layers, it is difficult to photograph from the UK because of its low elevation in the southern sky.
Modified EOS 600D,Meade ED 127mm telescope 12 x 5-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f7.5; manually off-axis guided. The frames were registered and stacked using Deep Sky Stacker software.
Image replaces an earlier attempt at the same subject.
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