StDr 1 - a new discovery
Featured in the British Astronomical Society Deep Sky Update, January 2020
Amateur Astronomy Picture Of The Day (AAPOD2) 25 February 2020  www.aapod2.com/blog/stdr-1
Published in Sky and Telescope Magazine New Nebula Discovered in Taurus - Sky & Telescope
Published in the monthly newsletter of the Temecula Valley Astronomers July 2020 www.temeculavalleyastronomers.com/uploads/3/4/3/6/34362778/2020_07_-_tva_newsletter.pdf
Discovered in November 2019 in the constellation Taurus and confirmed to be a true planetary nebula in January 2020.
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Nomenclature:  StDr 1, Strottner-Drechsler 1, PN-G 185.1-00.9
Right Ascension: 05:53:50.86
Declination: +24:02:27.11
Size: 4.8 arc min (central shell), 9 arc min (outer Ha halo)
Discovery: Xavier Strottner and Marcel Drechsler in November 2019

EQUIPMENT USED
Twin APM TMB LZOS 152 refractors
10Micron GM2000 HPS mount
Twin QSI6120 CCD cameras
Astrodon filters
IMAGE CAPTURE
5nm Ha: 19x1800 bin 3x3
3nm OIII: 8x1800 bin 3x3
Luminance: 21x300 bin 1x1
Red: 18x300 bin 1x1
Green: 18x300 bin 1x1
Blue: 17x300 bin 1x1
Total integration: 19.7 hours
Pixel scale: 0.533 arcsec/pixel
Field radius: 0.358 degrees
Capture dates: 5 December 2019 - 12 January 2020
Capture location:  Fregenal de la Sierra, Spain
IMAGE PROCESSING
Pre-processing: CCDStack2
Post-processing: Photoshop CS2
Ha image
OIII image
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Spectrograph by Pascal Le Du
Spectroscopy report: http://www.planetarynebulae.net/images/StDr_1_fiche.pdf