Howdy Debbie, I had the field ok (I compared it to a photo I found online). But my FOV is only 13x9, not nearly big enough for the whole thing. I've a feeling if I did a 4 panel mosaic and then had Tyler do the processing we'd see it. Maybe one day. Cheers, patrick On 19 Feb 2009, at 16:19, Debbie wrote:
Patrick,
Abell 31 is the largest known planetary nebula in the sky. I think the trick will be to find the parallagram of 4 stars in the field.
There is a picture and a nice observing report at this website. Maybe your skies there are not dark enough. I picked up Abell 35 at Bryce Canyon a few years back and that was faint. I also viewed Jones-Emberson1 at Fort Pearce a couple of years ago. It was out of the light pollution from St George. Low surface brightness planetaries need dark skies and averted vision and lots of patience.
http://www.skyhound.com/sh/archive/feb/PNG_219.1+31.2.html
Debbie