On Saturday, November 18, 2017 at 11:27:59 AM UTC-6, Razzmatazz wrote:
Just before winter sets in the outer arms of the Milky Way pass overhead. Embedded in them are regions of star formation and star death. M76 is a Planetary Nebula where the central star has shed its outer atmosphere shedding its hydrogen (the bright red areas) and oxygen (blue areas) into a shell, which is expanding into the surrounding space.

https://www.astromart.com/common/ima...7.jpg&caption=

Forgot to add that this image was captured thru my 432mm F8 Astrograph using clear, red, green, blue, H-a and OIII filters over a period of 3 nights.

At mag 10.1, this planetary nebula is just visible in 100mm binoculars as a fuzzy patch in Perseus overhead at 10pm local time.

Razzy