A pile of new Planetary Nebulae in the Galactic Plane

Mampaso, A.; Corradi, R. L. M.; Viironen, K.; Sabin, L.
Bibliographical reference

XII Latin American IAU Regional Meeting (Eds. G. Magris, G. Bruzual, & L. Carigi) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 35, pp. 103-104 (2009) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/)

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2009
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Description
The INT photometric H-alpha Survey (IPHAS; http://www.iphas.org) is now near completion. A band of 10 degrees along the Northern Galactic Plane is being imaged in Hα, r' and i' filters with typically 1 arcsec resolution and a completeness limit better than r'=20 mag. IPHAS is filling in the currently existing gap in the Planetary Nebulae (PNe) population of the Plane: we are on course to tripling the number of PNe known in the northern plane. Many hundreds of candidate PNe, both small diameter (<10 arcsec) and extended, have been identified; some are located in areas of particular interest as the Anticenter region. A preliminary analysis of the region from RA=18 to 20^h, where the observations are already complete, is presented.