NEW DISCOVERY: News from the Strottner Drechsler team.

Hello fellow stargazers. News from the Strottner Drechsler team.

⭐️NEW DISCOVERY⭐️
Strottner Drechsler 31 – Rochus Blossom Nebula
Good morning everyone,

We are very pleased to present to you today an image of a new, previously unknown planetary nebula, which has been confirmed as a true planetary nebula by spectroscopy.

It is located in the constellation Serpens, very close to the famous open cluster M16 and its associated emission nebula, the extensive HII region, and the star children, better known as the Eagle Nebula.

We discovered this object in December 2019 with my teammate Marcel Drechsler.

Our initial assumptions were confirmed by Rob Hawley's data in Hα, [OIII], [SII], and [NII] – this information provided the necessary elements to add Pascal Le Dû's object to our catalog as a candidate for a planetary nebula.

But it wasn't until this year that this NP was immortalized by Rochus Hess of the Vega Observatory in Salzburg and his 1-meter ASA telescope. Thanks, Rocky, for letting us use this amazing telescope!

A spectrum produced by our friend Lionel Mulato in May 2020 will show the typical nebula streaks of a true planetary nebula, as confirmed by Professor Quentin Parker, head of the research laboratory at the University of Hong Kong.

A first OIII crescent appears to float at the heart of blood-red filaments, ejected from the star at the end of its life.

Unfortunately, the data from the GAIA satellite are insufficient to determine the distance of the white dwarf potential responsible for this advanced bipolar planetary nebula.

Technical data:

Coordinates: 18:13:54.925 -14:17:6.93 (J2000)
Diameter: 4.6 x 11 arcminutes
Constellation: Serpens
Photograph: Rochus Hess
Processing: Marcel Drechsler
Telescope: 1-meter ASA reflector - Vega House of Nature Observatory, Salzburg.

Camera: FLI MicroLine 16803