Planetary nebulae have nothing to do with planets; they are so named because the first ones identified appeared disk-like. Sometime in the life of a star, before it has cooled and become a white dwarf, pressure from its core can expel the outer layers leaving an expanding shell of gas called a planetary nebula. This EVAC Observing Program has a total of 30 objects. Of special interest with the Planetary nebulae is the "size" of the object. Most are very, very small, thus hard to see, and harder to image. Of the 30 objects, 19 are less than 1 Arc Minute in height or width. 9 of those 19 are less than 30 Arc Seconds in size. The field of view with the LX200 and Meade DSI-II in native configuration is 8 x 10 Arc Minutes.

This project was started on March 13, 2010 at the All Az Messier Marathon.  Thus far, 22 objects have been imaged.  The viewing log and images are now updated as of October 23, 2011.

You can see the viewing log here. If the word "Image" appears in the Spreadsheet row, then that word will be a hyper-link to the image information for that observation.