Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)
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Small (Stellar) IPHAS Planentary Nebula G137.7+03.3 or IPHAS J030421.3+621802 Error?, Jerry Yesavage
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Small (Stellar) IPHAS Planentary Nebula G137.7+03.3 or IPHAS J030421.3+621802 Error?

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Small (Stellar) IPHAS Planentary Nebula G137.7+03.3 or IPHAS J030421.3+621802 Error?, Jerry Yesavage
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Small (Stellar) IPHAS Planentary Nebula G137.7+03.3 or IPHAS J030421.3+621802 Error?

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There do not appear to other versions on Astrobin. Apparently first observed on 9/19/2010. 

From the Isaac Newton Telescope Photometric Hα Survey of the Northern Galactic plane (IPHAS) PN Catalogue.

They claim it to be 57 arcseconds across, but it is much smaller, about 7 arcseconds.  If they are this small they look like stars in normal telescopes hence called "stellar".  I checked all the parameters and this is it... looks like the other stars around it.....  Take home message is you cannot count on IPHAS size estimates, or maybe their RA and DEC.

This is: IPHAS J030421.3+621802

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Here are their actual coordinates copied directly from their data table: 

RA 3:04:21

DEC 62:18:02

Here is the plate solve for my image: 

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Trying not to make a stupid error, but the numbers look correct and this 57 Arc" object is not there.  

Morphology is "Round".  On the H-alpha image there is the hint of the donut seen in the images from the larger observatories, but the O-III dominates.

I believe the imaging and spectroscopy was done at "OS and SM" or Observatorio de Sierra Nevada, Parque Natural de Sierra Nevada, Granada, Spain and San Pedro Martir in Mexico 2 m. 

Since I plan to image more of these (there are a lot) here is a table of descriptors from the original paper cited above.

Major and where relevant, minor axis dimensions in arcseconds: the measurement of PNe size was done from the 120 s exposure Hα images so we are limited in description of the exact extent of the nebulae.

Morphological classification: assigned following the ‘ERBIAS’ morphological classifiers to indicate Elliptical, Round, Bipolar, Irregular, Asymmetric or quasi-stellar (unresolved or barely resolved) PNe.

The additional sub-classifiers of ‘amprs’ were also used where evident:

one-sided enhancement/asymmetries denoted with ‘a’

multiple shells or external structure as ‘m’

point symmetry ‘p’

well-defined ring structure or annulus ‘r’

resolved, internal structure as ‘s’.

Telescope and date for first spectroscopic confirmation: a two-letter code is used to identify each telescope used for spectroscopic confirmations as follows:

WH – WHT 4.2 m

IN – INT 2.5 m

SM – San Pedro Martir 2 m

KP – KPNO 2 m

GC – Grantecan 10 m

OS – OSN 1.5 m (Observatorio de Sierra Nevada, Parque Natural de Sierra Nevada, Granada, Spain)

MS – ANU 2.3 m with DBS

WI – ANU 2.3 m with WiFeS

SA – SAAO 1.9 m

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