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NGC7662 is a planetary nebula found in the constellation of Andromeda. It is also commonly known as the Snowball nebula. The spectra below were taken on 27th Oct 2010. It was fairly windy and clouds kept moving across the field of view. Spacial resolution as was done for M57 was not possible because it just was not possible to keep the target in place. However, a spectrum was obtained which is an average view of NGC7662. I think that it is still interesting because it is so very different to M57 in that there are no large N+ lines.

The spectrum was taken on the C14, QSI532 camera, 24um slit, 300g/mm grating, bin 1x1 (bin 2x2 on processing), total of 40min exposure.

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