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Community photo entitled NGC 6781 by Catherine Hyde on 08/29/2025 at Cambria, CA USA

NGC 6781

On 08/29/2025 10:00 pm by Catherine Hyde | Website | Cambria, CA USA

This is a little-known planetary nebula in Aquila called NGC6781. I've been doing astrophotography for six years and I only just figured out that it exists. This is a stack of 101 300-second images, taken over the nights of the 28th and 29th.

StellarVue 152mm refractor, Nikon D810A DSLR camera, Astro-Physics Mach2GTO tracking mount.

Separated stars from nebulosity, stretched the planetary nebula a little, stars hardly at all. Recombined. Sharpened slightly.