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Hi Carol..Yes..I have heard M27 described as the applecore..but it looks more like a bowtie to me.
Bill
It's funny, but a naturalist friend of mine when he first got a look at M27 in my 10 inch using the UHC filter, he said, "It looks like a shark's egg.", which was a little puzzling, as I have never seen one. Still, with the filter at 47x, the object looked like a complete but slightly irregular oval with the faint "wings" off the ends of the apple-core formation being easy to see. Clear skies to you.
I think it depends on the light pollution and aperture. M27 looks like a thick bar with fairly bright wings to me. I have a hard time seeing the contraction/dimming in the middle.
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