NGC 7662 Blue Snowball Nebula - telescope processed image. It is one of the few deep-sky objects that shows real color in small telescopes; its striking blue-green tint comes from highly ionized oxygen gas.

NGC 7662 Blue Snowball Nebula - unprocessed image. This "double-shell" nebula features a bright inner ring and a fainter outer halo, created by a hot stellar wind pushing gas at 30 kilometers per second.

Here is #NGC7662 #TheBlueSnowballNebula. #unistellar #odysseypro #space #astronomy #amateur

NGC 7662 / C22 The Blue Snowball Nebula - telescope processed image with Moon and Sky Light Filter. NGC 7662 is a planetary nebula in Andromeda. Nicknamed the Blue Snowball for its small, bright, and distinctly blue-green color. A dying star's expelled outer layers.

NGC 7662 / C22 The Blue Snowball Nebula - unprocessed image with Moon and Sky Light Filter. Its central star is one of the hottest known, a tiny white dwarf with a surface temperature up to 100,000 k, which makes the gas glow blue-green.

Next observation from tonight, #NGC7662 / #C22 #TheBlueSnowballNebula. There was this accessory that came with the dew shield I bought for the s50. Put some thread through it and look at the effect on the stars. #seestar #S50 #space #astronomy #amateur

This is the unprocessed NGC 7662 Snowball Nebula. You can see color variations from the center to the exterior.

Processed image of NGC 7662 Snowball Nebula. The nebula all became the same color.

Such a busy day. Here is the last observations of the morning. I have mentioned this before that the UNISTELLAR Odyssey Pro has its own processing of images. It normally does decent job. Sometimes the processing reduces the subtle colors. Example - these […]

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