Altogether 86 objects discovered in the the period 1991-1994 have been accepted by the author as new PN (Table 1). In appendices A and B to this table the lists of possible pre-PN as well as possible post-PN, respectively, are given. Table 2 presents 56 misclassified objects which we suggest removing from CGPN.
Using Hubble Space Telescope images of 119 young planetary nebulae (PNs), most of which have not previously been published, we have devised a comprehensive morphological classification system for these objects. This system generalizes a recently devised system for pre-planetary nebulae, which are the immediate progenitors of PNs. Unlike previous classification studies, we have focused primarily on young PNs rather than all PNs, because the former best show the influences or symmetries imposed on them by the dominant physical processes operating at the first and primary stage of the shaping process. Older PNs develop instabilities, interact with the ambient interstellar medium, and are subject to the passage of photoionization fronts, all of which obscure the underlying symmetries and geometries imposed early on. Our classification system is designed to suffer minimal prejudice regarding the underlying physical causes of the different shapes and structures seen in our PN sample, however, in many cases, physical causes are readily suggested by the geometry, along with the kinematics that have been measured in some systems. Secondary characteristics in our system, such as ansae, indicate the impact of a jet upon a slower-moving, prior wind; a waist is the signature of a strong equatorial concentration of matter, whether it be outflowing or in a bound Keplerian disk, and point symmetry indicates a secular trend, presumably precession, in the orientation of the central driver of a rapid, collimated outflow.
We observed 64 newly identified galactic bulge planetary nebulae in the radio continuum at 3 and 6 cm with the Australia Telescope Compact Array. We present their radio images, positions, flux densities, and angular sizes. The survey appears to have detected a larger ratio of more extended planetary nebulae with low surface brightness than in previous surveys. We calculated their distances according to Van de Steene & Zijlstra (1995A&A...293..541V). We find that most of the new sample is located on the near side around the galactic center and closer in than the previously known bulge PNe. Based on H{alpha} images and spectroscopic data, we calculated the total H{alpha} flux. We compare this flux value with the radio flux density and derive the extinction. We confirm that the distribution of the extinction values around the galactic center rises toward the center, as expected.
La recherche d'objets non references dans le ciel est devenue une activite courante dans le milieu amateur. Les cibles convoitees sont de differentes natures: cometes, etoiles variables, etoiles Be, nebuleuses planetaires (NP)... L'amateur dispose maintenant de nombreuses donnees professionnelles pour realiser ses recherches, mais il lui est encore possible de decouvrir un objet par ses propres moyens, avec son materiel d'observation, a partir de ses images.
We report our initial discovery of 73 new planetary nebulae (PNe) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) following confirmatory 2dF spectroscopy on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. Preliminary candidate sources come from a 10 per cent sub-area of our new deep, high-resolution H{alpha} map of the central 25deg^2^ of the LMC obtained with the UK Schmidt Telescope. The depth of the high-resolution map was extended to R_equiv_~22 for H{alpha} (4.5x10^-17^erg/cm^2^/s/{AA}) by a process of multi-exposure median co-addition of a dozen 2-h H{alpha} exposures. The resulting map is at least 1-mag deeper than the best wide-field narrow-band LMC images currently available. This depth, combined with our selection technique, has also led to the discovery of extended asymptotic giant branch (AGB) haloes around many new and previously known LMC PNe for the first time. Once complete, our new survey is expected to triple the LMC PN population and have significant implications for the LMC PN luminosity function, kinematics, abundance gradients, chemical evolution and, via study of the AGB haloes, the initial to final mass relation for low- to intermediate-mass stars.
