IPHASX J052531.2+281946: a new Planetary Nebula towards the Galactic Anticentre

Mampaso, A.; Viironen, K.; Corradi, R. L. M.; Rodríguez, M.; Drew, J. E.; Greimel, R.; Irwin, J.
Bibliographical reference

PLANETARY NEBULAE AS ASTRONOMICAL TOOLS: International Conference on Planetary Nebulae as Astronomical Tools. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 804, pp. 14-14 (2005).

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11
2005
Number of authors
7
IAC number of authors
2
Citations
5
Refereed citations
3
Description
A planetary nebula has been discovered in the course of the INT/WFC Photometric Hα Survey (IPHAS) of the northern galactic plane. It is located near the galactic anticentre direction. Its small diameter and low Hβ brightness point to an extremely large distance. The ``Shklovskii'' galactocentric distance of DGC = 14-->20 kpc3 makes this nebula one of the farthest galactic PNe for which chemical abundances have been measured.