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Barnard 169-174 and the overlooked DA 568 and BFS 10, Göran Nilsson
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Barnard 169-174 and the overlooked DA 568 and BFS 10

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Barnard 169-174 and the overlooked DA 568 and BFS 10, Göran Nilsson
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Barnard 169-174 and the overlooked DA 568 and BFS 10

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Finally a long clear night, and I aimed at this area of dark nebulosity just to the east of the Elephant Trunk Nebula. I soon realized that there are other interesting objects here. Down to the right is a big round object of mainly Ha nebulosity and just above it there is a small but bright red object. After some search in the in the Simbad database I found that the larger area of Ha nebulosity is DA 568 and the smaller one is BFS 10 (aka WN B2154.8+5747). They were first found as strong radio emitting objects and not until 2004 described as Ha regions when Kerton et al (2004) devoted a whole paper to these overlooked objects (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/381296/pdf).

This is what they look like as radio objects according to Kerton et al (2004). The big object seen to the right is the Elephant Trunk Nebula:

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