Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Hydra (Hya)  ·  Contains:  PK303+40.1  ·  Sh2-313
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Abell 35 (Sh2 313), Jerry Yesavage
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Abell 35 (Sh2 313)

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Abell 35 (Sh2 313)

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The planetary nebula Abell 35 appears strikingly different when photographed in O III as compared to its H-alpha image. The disparity is believed to be due to the effects of a stellar wind originating with a binary central star interacting with the nebular shell. The previously unidentified central star is shown to have a transverse velocity of 150 km/s and exhibits a wind having a terminal velocity of 185 km/s at a mass-loss rate of 3 x 10 to the -9th solar masses per year. The distance to the nebula is 360 pc, as determined photometrically from the visible member of the binary nucleus.

Above from:

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1981ApJ...244..903J/abstract

See also an earlier article

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1981ApJ...244..903J

GENERAL NOTE ON ABELL (and other) PLANETARY NEBULA>>>>>>>>>>>>>

From Wikipedia:

The Abell Catalog of Planetary Nebulae was created in 1966 by George O. Abell and was composed of 86 entries thought to be planetary nebulae that were collected from discoveries, about half by Albert George Wilson and the rest by Abell, Robert George Harrington, and Rudolph Minkowski. All were discovered before August 1955 as part of the National Geographic Society – Palomar Observatory Sky Survey on photographic plates created with the 48-inch (1.2 m) Samuel Oschin telescope at Mount Palomar. Four were later rejected as not being planetaries: Abell 11 (reflection nebula), Abell 32 (red plate flaw), Abell 76 (ring galaxy PGC 85185), and Abell 85 (supernova remnant CTB 1 and noted as possibly such in Abell's 1966 paper). Another three were also not included in the Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae (SEC): Abell 9, Abell 17 (red plate flaw), and Abell 64. Planetaries on the list are best viewed with a large aperture telescope (e.g. 18-inch (0.46 m)) and an OIII filter.

It turns out to my surprise most of these are visible with my Stellarvue 130mm (5-inch) SVX.

Bottom line there are 79 imagable Abell Nebula of which I have imaged 46 (half-way point Feb 6 2012).

This is my collection:

Planetary Nebula (Abell)

These are sorted by number and behind the Abell's are other miscellaneous PNs that I have imaged... I have a list of the 100 brightest.

These are some useful Abell relevant sites:

Color and IMHO Best Filter Information

Images by Season and More Filter information in German

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