NEW DISCOVERY - STROTTNER-DRECHSLER 20 - Aurore's nebula

APRIL 11 2021

STROTTNER-DRCHSLER 20 / StDr20 / PN-G: 233.0+03.5

24.4 hours total exposure
32 x 1200s H-alpha
32 x 1200s OIII
18 x 600s RGB

Telescope: ASA RC 1000, Chilesscpe
Camera: FLI Proline 16803

Photo: Marcel Drechsler and Xavier Strottner
Image processing: Marcel Drechsler

StDr20 is the potential remnant of a dying star, a planetary nebula in the constellation Puppis, at a distance of nearly 4000 light-years from Earth. The probable PN has not yet been spectroscopically confirmed, but there is no doubt about the nature of a PN.

StDr20 (Aurore's Nebula) was discovered in February 2020 by Xavier Strottner and Marcel Drechsler of the team "StDr".

StDr20 is extremely old, because it is very distant, extremely faint, but still 6' arcminutes large.
Estimated age about 20000 years.