Kohoutek 2-1 (K2-1) Planetary Nebula (Douglas J Struble)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Auriga (Aur)

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Kohoutek 2-1 (K2-1) Planetary Nebula

I started capturing this January 9th of this year and just finished capturing last week. It's been a rough winter as usual for capturing and given my light pollution, I had a heck of a time pulling out the detail in the OIII. My friend Peter captured some Ha, but there is not a lot there so I decided given my limited nights of clear skies, I would just hammer the OIII.

In 1963 while examining the POSS plates, Kohoutek came across a number of new nebulae, most of which he was able to identify as planetary nebulae. These were published in the bulletin of the Czech Astronomical Institute Circular in 1963 as BAICz14. However, in the case of some of the objects he discovered he was not able to confirm their type. Over the years this object has been variously catalogued as an irregular galaxy (UGCA 100), a bright nebula (LBN 809) or even a reflection nebula (DG 50). SIMBAD classifies this object as a diffuse nebula with notes saying it is not a galaxy or a planetary nebula. This is somewhat odd as the current professional planetary nebula (HASH) database classifies it as a true planetary nebula. In the discovery paper Kohoutek remarks on a blue star near the centre of the nebula at about 18th mag which could be the central star.

Kohoutek 2-1 is 3700 light years away in the constellation Auriga. It has a size of 115x126 arc sec and is predominantly OIII. It has a mean surface brightness of 24.1 mag/arc sec.

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