DEEP-SKY TOUR
Aug 13, 2020
3 minutes
1 NGC 6891
he plane of the Milky Way is a great place to locate planetary nebulae, and this month we’re hunting down six examples. We start with NGC 6891, which sits on the Delphinus-Aquila border. It lies 2.5˚ south of the star Rho (l) Aquilae. As an aside, despite being an Aquila star, Rho technically sits within Delphinus. NGC 6891 shines with an integrated magnitude of +10.5 and is around one-third of an arcminute
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