Jacoby 1 • Coffee Stain Planetary Nebula

Image Description and Details : This is one of the hardest deep space objects I have ever processed. I was well past diminishing returns in the amount of integration time I captured for my poor bortle 8 skies. I started capturing this April of this year; four months ago. It was even more challenging than the squid nebula; Ou4. While Jacoby 1 has only a designation name, I decided to call it the coffee stain planetary nebula for obvious reasons. Jacoby 1 lies within the Bootes constellation. It was discovered in 1995 by George Jacoby. It's amazing given how faint it is that he was able to discover it in the first place.

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