NGC 7048, planetary nebula

Planetary Nebula NGC 7048 in Cygnus

NGC 7048, a planetary nebula
CCD image taken with an SBIG ST-9E/AO-7 CCD camera thru Kopernik's 20 inch F/8.1 telescope. The exposure was 10 minutes, and the image scale is 8 x 8 arc minutes, with North at the top.

Description of NGC 7048 in: Dreyer's New General Catalog (NGC):

"Pretty faint, pretty large, diffused, irregularly round, very little brighter middle."

Description in: The Deep Sky Field Guide to Uranometria 2002:

"Irregular Disk with traces of ring structure."

This Planetary Nebula is located in the Constellation of Cygnus. F. Sabbadin estimated the distance of NGC 7048 to be 6,200 light years (1986, A&AS 64, 579). There are slight errors in the cataloged position. The coordinates shown below were measured from the Kopernik image.

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NGC 7048
Other ID: PK 88-1.1
Magnitude: 11.3 (visual)
Constellation: Cygnus
RA: 21h 14m 15.4s
Dec: +46° 17' 13" Epoch 2000
Size (min): 1.0'
Classification: Planetary nebula, irregular disk with traces of ring structure..

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George Normandin, KAS

December 19th, 2002