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NGC2359 and Planetary Nebula PN G227.1+00.5.

The planetary nebula at the lower left is about 211x196 arc-seconds in size and was only recently discovered ( 6-7 years ago) in the SuperCOSMOS H-alpha survey.

This image was selected for NASA’s APOD (Astronomy Picture of the day) on March 12th 2009:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090312.html

Copyright (c) 2009 Rogelio Bernal Andreo and Ray Gralak

(Click the image for full size view)

Here is another view in Hydrogen Alpha. Click the limage for a full size view. Note that this image is highly strethed to show details so there is some noise in the image.

Copyright (c) 2009 Ray Gralak