Messier 76 (also known as M76, the Little Dumbbell Nebula or NGC650/651) is a planetary nebula in the constellation Perseus.
This nebula was discovered by the French astronomer Pierre Méchain in 1780, and was included in the Charles Messier's catalogue of comet-like objects as number 76 as a double nebula without stars (for this reason, it was also catalogued as ,…Read more
HAT-P-16b is a gas giant exoplanet orbiting HAT-P-16, an F- type star with an apparent magnitude of 10.9 and a size close to that of our Sun (Mass = 1.22 Msun, Radius = 1.24 Rsun).
Located in the constellation Andromeda, it is 739 light-years away from us and takes only 2.8 days to complete one orbit around its star. Its discovery was announced in 2010.
Its mass is 4.19 times that of Jupiter, and the distance to its star is 0.0413 AU.
Transit taken remotely on 14/09/2024 (with Moon at 85%) with TOA-150 telescope and STL-11000M camera (110 120-second exposures).
