Planetary Nebulae Observer's Home Page Image Index
Saturday, January 23, 2010
In addition to importing images from many web resources and contributors, I'm gradually indexing a large majority of the images and sketches that are on this web site, and have created these hyper-link tables and lists to allow you to select any of the 600+ planetary nebulae images appearing on these pages. I must admit that a good majority of them are 'appropriated' from SkyView's Digital Sky Survey, which unfortunately was not optimized for the correct exposure for planetary nebulae and either vastly over-exposes many of them, or in the case of very faint PNe's, under exposes them or the imaging system was not optimized using the correct filters. However, at the same time, in almost every case, you can determine what object in the field is the planetary nebula, it's approximate size, visibility, shape, and the nature of the field that it lies in. The standard field of view for these DSS1 images is 8.5' (arc-minutes) square and DSS2 images are 5.5', unless otherwise indicated.
The layout of this page is such that the first table
links all NGC numbered PNe Images (94), the second table links all IC numbered images
(35), and then an alphabetical list of all other catalog objects
(Minkowski, Kohoutek, Abell, Henize, Jones, etc). This is the list that will be
expanded as I add more images. There are currently 479 images in this particular
list.
In a number of table cells, there are two or more images available: when the top
designation has 'DS', that is an image that I took with an ST-8 CCD camera; otherwise the
top designation links to a Sky View image while the lower designation, if any,
suffixed 'HST' indicates an accompanying Hubble Space Telescope Image. Designations
with an 'SK' at the end indicate a sketch of the planetary. Designations
with an 'SA' indicate an image by Scott Alder (Australia). I am very honored to
have the best astronomical sketch artists provide this site with their works:
Michael Büchner, Bert Dekker, Rich Jakiel, David Knisely, and Larry McHenry. There
are also some of the best astro-imagers represented here also: Ed Grafton, Al Kelly,
Frank Loch, Kunihiko Okano, and Michael Purcell. Other astro-artists and
astro-imagers have contacted me about including their splendors of the night efforts, and
I will certainly include them as soon as possible.
To view an image, click on the object designation line, and to return to this page after viewing the image, use your browser's BACK button. Included in each table cell is also the constellation in which the object is found. These images are also linked from the web site's data pages.
Update
08/04/2004: Added color image
of MZ3 (Ant Nebula) - courtesy of Scott Alder, New South Wales, Australia.
Update
08/09/2003: Added color image of NGC6572 in
Ophiuchus - courtesy of Sebastien Caille (Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France)
Update 07/18/2003: Through
the courtesy of Mr. Adam Block, Lead Observer for the nightly and advanced
observing public observing programs at NOAO (National Optical Astronomy
Observatories, Kitt Peak) and on behalf of AURA (Association of Universities for
Research in Astronomy) and the NSF (National Science Foundation), I am pleased
to include on these pages a number of LRGB (Luminance, Red, Green, Blue) color
images taken by Adam and other folks that have taken advantage of Kitt Peak's Advanced
Observing Program. If you visit the AOP web site, you will find higher
resolution images and the technical information about the images which are included here. Within the tables and the list, I have identified these
49 images with the suffix 'AB' for Adam Block. They have supplemented or replaced
several of the poorer quality images of the NGC objects previously downloaded
from the first POSS (Palomar Observatory Sky Survey) plates. These AOP
images come with this permission clause: "All
images on these pages were taken at the Kitt Peak Visitor Center Observatory.
The JPEG images found on these pages can be copied for non-printed and
non-commercial use. Please use the minimum credit line as shown on each gallery
page.
Requests for publication of any images should be made with Adam Block (ablock@noao.edu
). It is not permitted to print the JPEG images found here in any form.
Requestors will be provided a high resolution (uncompressed) TIF image to print
from upon inquiry."
Update 07/19/2002: New tricolor image of M27 (NGC 6853) by Dave Jurasevich.
Update 09/18/2001: In place of several over exposed planetary nebulae images from the professional surveys (POSS I, POSS II, etc), I am embarked on a project to image these PN's, mostly NGC and IC objects, that will show the fainter inner and outer structure, if present. This first installment includes the following objects: IC 289, IC 1747, NGC 2022, 6742, 6765, 6778, 6818, 6842, 6852, 7026, and 7027. I have selected objects on survey plates that were over exposed and which were larger than 10" (arc seconds) in size. As more objects come into view over the course of the year, and which I feel need to be imaged, I will add them to this page.
Another image added at this time (actually two) is of the large (720") and extremely difficult PN in Cassiopeia, Sharpless2_176 (Sh2_176). I managed to observe this PN on the evening of 9/18/01.
Added 11/29/99: Through the courtesy of Tom Polakis of Tempe, Arizona, it is
a pleasure to feature on this page, an 82 image mosaic of every
Abell Planetary in the Abell catalog from 1966. There were a total of 86 Abell PN's
initially, but 5 of them have since been determined not to be planetaries (Abell 11, 17,
32, 76 & 85). Tom created this mosaic from images he downloaded from the Digital
Sky Survey and cropped to highlight the planetaries. He has included a size legend
on the image so that the approximate size of the PN can be determined. In some of
the images, the PN is so faint that it is not visible in these DSS images! The Abell
planetaries are, in most cases, challenging objects to detect and observe. Many
intermediate and advanced amateurs consider the Abell objects the Ultimate PN
challenge. The file is quite large (about 217Kb), so it will
take some time to load in its entirety, but it is well worth the wait!
There is also an associated data table now online which contains the data Tom put
together for these objects. It is linked to the image or can be accessed via this link.
Tom has his own web site in which he features pages on astro-imaging, deep sky observing, planetaries, and a multitude of other facets of astronomy. It is highly recommended!
PLEASE LET ME KNOW YOUR SUGGESTIONS ON IMPROVING THIS PAGE AND/OR SITE! THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
| IC289AB IC289DS IC289SK CASSIOPEIA |
IC351 PERSEUS |
IC418 IC418SK LUPUS |
IC972 VIRGO |
IC1266 ARA |
IC1295 SCUTUM |
IC1297 CORONA AUSTRALIS |
| IC1454 CEPHEUS |
IC1747DS IC1747 CASSIOPEIA |
IC2003 PERSEUS |
IC2149 AURIGA |
IC2165 CANIS MAJOR |
IC2448 CARINA |
IC2501 CARINA |
| IC2553 CARINA |
IC2621 CARINA |
IC3568 IC3568HST CEPHEUS |
IC4191 MUSCA |
IC4406 IC4406HST LUPUS |
IC4593 HERCULES |
IC4599 SCORPIUS |
| IC4634 OPHIUCHUS |
IC4637 SCORPIUS |
IC4642 ARA |
IC4663 SCORPIUS |
IC4670 SAGITTARIUS |
IC4673 SAGITTARIUS |
IC4699 TELSCOPIUM |
| IC4732 SAGITTARIUS |
IC4776 SAGITTARIUS |
IC4846 AQUILA |
IC4997 IC4997HST SAGITTA |
IC5117 CYGNUS |
IC5148/5150 IC5148SK GRUS |
IC5217 LACERTA |
Note that in the above list, these particular Abell planetaries are ones that do not have an NGC or IC designation. There are additional images of Abell planetaries in the NGC and IC tables: IC972 (Abell37), NGC6742 (Abell50), NGC7076 (Abell75), and IC1454 (Abell81).
Credit for these images is gratefully extended to the following sources:
Digital Sky Survey, ESO (European Southern Observatory), Anglo-Australian Telescope, Kitt Peak, Dr. George Jacoby (NOAO), Dr. Howard Bond(STScI), Dr. Bruce Balick(U. of Washington), Al Kelly, Antonio Giambersio, Ed Grafton, Michael Purcell, Frank Loch, Scott Alder (NSW, Australia), Univ. of Arizona Astronomy Club, Space Telescope Science Institute, Adam Block (NOAO/AURA/NSF) along with his fellow co-imagers.
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