| ING Media Archival Record | | ITEM REFERENCE | 1855 | | PERMANENT LINK | https://astro.ing.iac.es/outreach/?1855 | | EXTACCESS | yes | | COLLECTION | Image archive | | TITLE | M76 or NGC 650. | | KEYWORDS | Messier;Nebulae | | DATE | 2001-11-25 | | DESCRIPTION | The Little Dumbell Nebula. M76 is among the fainter Messier objects. It is known under the names Little Dumbbell Nebula (the most common), Cork Nebula, Butterfly Nebula, and Barbell Nebula, and it was given two NGC numbers as it was suspected to be a double nebula with two components in contact, a hypothesis brought up by William Herschel, who numbered the second component H I.193 on November 12, 1787. NGC 651 is the North following (East) part of the nebula. Site2 CCD on Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope. 2*300 second exposures in Harris V, B and R filters. | | CREDIT | Thomas Hardy School. | | TELESCOPE | JKT | | INSTRUMENT | JKTCCD | | THUMB_75 | 
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