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Manchado, A.; Guerrero, M. A.; Stanghellini, L.; Serra-Ricart, M.
Bibliographical reference
American Astronomical Society, 186th AAS Meeting, #38.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 27, p.865
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1995
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Description
Planetary Nebulae (PNe) are highly representative of the lastest stages
of intermediate mass stellar evolution. However, there are still many
unresolved questions in their evolutionary scheme. Mass loss processes
during the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) are not fully understood.
Binarity, rotation and magnetic fields may play an important role in PNe
formation. The morphological study of PNe will help us to address those
questions, and therefore a rationale and homogeneous data base is
needed. Searching in the literature we have not found a homogeneous
catalogue of northern PNe. There are some incomplete works of a few
dozen PNe (Balick 1987; Chu et al 1987), and also an incomplete
catalogue of southern PNe (Schwarz et al. 1992). We aim at filling the
gap, carring out a complete Catalogue of extended northern PN. This
catalogue will have the following characteristics: (a) It will be
homogeneous (all the images are being obtained with the same telescope
and instrument), and complete for all the PNe with -10(deg) < delta
< +80(deg) and with diameters larger than 12arcsec, because stellar
PNe cannot be used for this kind of study. (b) In order to obtain a
sharp image of the different ionized regions, images are obtained
through narrow band filters: Hα +[N ii] (FWHM=100 Angstroms) and
[O iii] lambda 5007 Angstroms (FWHM=30 { Angstroms}). (c) It will
exclude all the objects with doubtful classifications, as well as the
PNe included in Balick (1987) and Schwarz et al. (1992). Since the
summer 1993, 120 PNe have been observed at the 0.8 m IAC-80 telescope,
at the Observatorio del Teide (Tenerife). The spatial scale on the
detector, a 1024times 1024 Thomson CCD, is {0{farcs}435}, the field of
view being {7{farcm}4}. It lacks 30 PNe more to finish the sample which
is expected to be finished after the summer 1995, and will published as
a book by the IAC. As a glimpse of the future catalogue, we present
composite real color images of some PNe, produced by combining the
Hα + [N ii] with red, and the [O iii] with green.