12/20/11br/Scope- LX50 10" w/6.3 focal reducer br/Camera - Orion Starshoot Pro 2.0br/Exposures - 3 x 300 sec. + 4 Darks @ 300 sec.br/Scope was not fine focused and clouds came in early so I had to end the session.br/Subject: a a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_nebula"; target="_blank"planetary nebula/a (PN) in the a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation"; target="_blank"constellation/a a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulpecula"; target="_blank"Vulpecula/a, at a distance of about 1,360 light years.br/This object was the first a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_nebula"; target="_blank"planetary nebula/a to be discovered; by a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Messier"; target="_blank"Charles Messier/a in 1764. At its brightness of visual magnitude 7.5 and its diameter of about 8 arcminutes