NGC 7009 is one of the brightest planetary nebulae and a relatively easy object to find in the constellation Aquarius. At magnitude 8 it is observable in small telescopes and responds well to high magnification. A series of 20 and 30 second exposures were all that was required to capture this curiously shaped puffed up star. It is nicknamed “Saturn Nebula” perhaps because it has bipolar symmetrical elongations that mimic the rings of Saturn.
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