1 NGC 7027
Let’s start with NGC 7027, a 10th-magnitude planetary nebula in Cygnus. It’s located within the busy Milky Way, 5.5° southeast of Deneb, 2.1° east-northeast of mag. +3.9 Nu (ν) Cygni. Known as the Jewel Bug Nebula, it’s around 3,000 lightyears away and being a youthful and rare proto-planetary nebula, is small at 0.2 x 0.1 lightyears across. It appears 14 arcseconds across. Small telescopes reveal an object like a star at low