Telescope Reviews: planetary NGC 6765 in Lyra

Hello, I observed this object a couple nights ago with my 12" dob, and it looked like a faint face on galaxy with a very subtle N-S elongation, and slightly brighter in the center, and it was about 35" in diameter, and the magnitude of this faint Lyra planetary is 12.9v.

Thats pretty dim in my opinion, it lies near the much brighter globular cluster M56, and I tried different magnifications on the object and it got better at higher powers, because of the darker background.

This object is much fainter then the famed ring nebula, but was fairly easy to find, the nebula lies just NNW of a faint horseshoe shaped aterism facing South, and about 3' to the SSW of the planetary lies a 12th magnitude pair of stars pointing directly towards the planetary.

This is an intersting object in photographs, but it's even more interesting visually through a large aperture instrument...clear skies

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