Abell 36 is a planetary nebula located 780 light years away in the constellation of Virgo. It is an ancient nebula with more diiffuse structure but complex shock fronts.
The central star is very hot, about 73 000 K and emits mainly in ultraviolet light.
A very deep image taken with the ESO's VLT telescope you can find here.
Image data:
HaO3LRGB (360-320-400-140-120-120 min) total 24 h, north is up, seeing 0.8-1.3 arc-sec
80cm f/7 Astrooptik Keller cassegrain, FLI PL-16803, Astrodon gen2 filters, Prompt 7 CTIO Chile
Processing: Johannes Schedler
Find here a center cropped image in 50/100% size and a full frame HaO3LRGB image in 30/70% size below.