Introduction

    Both in research and in amateur astronomy, the quest of information involve such a lost of time. As I'm a PN fanatic, I've done a prospection work all around the world wich has been conclued by this CD where astrophysic documents and pictures collection are merged.

Articles

    I've collected here soem articles and conferences that I made and wich deal with subjects related to PN : from stellar evolution to spectral analysis...
 

• confnp3 : general stellar evoltion - from the principal sequence to the different stellar end...
• dailysp2 : report about PN spectral analysis made at the OCA observatory
• evolstar : stellar evolution describe with astrophysic view
• pkcontra : report of visual observation about the most difficult PN that are accessible to amateur
• npspectr : synthesis of spectroscopic concept applied to PN

  Those texts are copyrighted and can't be reproduced or freely distributed without the author permission.

Research table

    This is the best way to find PN's caracteritics, pictures and finder chart in a usefull table.   NEW

• PK tables
• NGC table
• IC table

Catalogs

    Here are collected PN catalogues as the SEC (ESO) one, the PK catalogue with visual magnitude or cataclismic stars catalogue...
 

• Abell : George Abell's PN catalogue (curtesy B. Mauclaire)
• Central_star_eso : central star ESO catalogue (curtesy Strasbourg Observatory-)
• Eso_PK : PK catalogue from ESO (curtesy Strasbourg Observatory-)
• Finding_charts : non easy PN's star fields (Dim>20" and Mgv>15)
• SEC_blackskies : data base build with the SEC and with observationnal check from Doug SNYDER web site -> internet link
  
• SEC_Gottlieb_Wallace : data base build with the SEC and completed by S. Gottlieb and K. Wallace as txt, xls and csv table
• Hynes_Ferrero_PK : PK catalogue with useful data for amateur astronoms (curtesy Laurent FERRERO)
• Hynes_PK : PK catalogue's source with amateur astronoms' data (curtesy Steve HYNES-)
• Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae by Kohoutek, Updated Version 2000 -> internet link (curtesy L. Kohoutek)
• New and Misclassified Planetary Nebulae (1995-1999) from Kohoutek (Supplement 6 to CGPN) (curtesy L. Kohoutek)
• MCloud_NP : PN catalogue located in the Great Magellanic Cloud (curtesy Strasbourg Observatory-)
• New_NP : last ESO catalogue that contains new PN compiled in 1997 (curtesy Strasbourg Observatory-)
• Np_const : PK catalogue sorted by constellations (curtesy B. Mauclaire)
• Old_stars_cats : last stage stars' catalogues (curtesy Strasbourg Observatory-)
• Saguaro : famous saguaro's deep sky object catalogue -> internet link (curtesy Saguara Club)
• Sn : SN catalogue (curtesy Strasbourg Observatory-)

  
  

• Finding_charts : non easy PN's star fields (Dim>20" and Mgv>15)
• Kohoutek's finding charts from his own catalog PK67 -> internet link (curtesy L. Kohoutek)

PN datas

    Ospuscule of useful astrophysics datas.

• ESOcat_present : presention pages of the SEC paper catalogue
• Evol_stars : catalogues and datas (HR diagrams...) about last stage and cataclismics stars from ESO database

   

  • Cataclyms_variables : datas and catalogue by Dawnes et Shara
  • Cataclysm_binaries : catalog of cataclysmic binaries, low-mass X-ray binaries and related objects (5th edition)
  • Cataclysm_stars2 : catalog and Atlas of Cataclysmic Variables (Downes+ 1997)
  • Diags_HR : somes aposite HR diagrams HR
  • LMXB_cataclysm_var : cataclysmic Binaries and LMXB Catalogue (Ritter+ 1998)
  • PPN texts (-)                                              NEW
  • Pulsar : texts and docs about pulsars
  • Structure_gaz : gazeous PN's structure

     

• HeII_survey : PN catalogue with theHeII flux
• Hitory : history of PN
• Morphology : texts about connection between PN morphology and his progenitor
• Numeric_2D : report and pictures about 2D PN modelisation
• Numeric_3D : report and pictures about 3D PN modelisation
• Spectroscopy : spectral data and catalogue about PN
• Unexplained properties : PN's catalogue that properties can't be explain by her progenitor caracteritics

PN Benji's sketches

    This directory contains all my sketches about visual obsevation (more than 200) that I made with a 17,5" dobsionian telescop at the La Sinne Observatory (Vauvenargues  (13) - France).

    Some are merged in a tabular where each sketches are associated with the photographic picture for comparaison.

PN draws others

    Other amateur astronoms make accurate PN observations :
 

• Vincent LE GUERN (curtesy Vincent Leguern -)
• Yann POTHIER (curtesy Yann Pothier -)
• Eric HONNEYCUTT (internet link)
• Text report made by americans astronoms

PN galery

    Here are collected more than 1 200 pictures of PN that come from several origins : internet, magazinen HST surveys, amateur CCD pictures...

    This collection NEW provides a large representation of PN's morphology throught several great observatory's telescop...

    Otherwise, all the 1 143 PN aren't represented even if the DSS gives the pictures of lot of them but not allways with the best quality required for morphological analysis.

Proto PN galery

    A picture and text (articles...) collection about final stage of stellar evolution as Wolf-Rayet stars, PPN, OH-IR object useful for PN's progenitor studing.
 

• Be : pictures and spectra of some Be stars
• OH_IR : radio picture of OH-IR objects
• Post_AGB : Proto-PN's pictures (post-AGB stars) (-)                  NEW
• Red_giant : pictures and computer simulation of stars's atmospher
• Symbiotic : images of symbiotic stars
• WRC : pictures of some carbonated Wolf-Rayet stars
• WRN : pictures of some nitrogenated Wolf-Rayet stars

Programs

    Some software and tools that deals with stellar evolution, hydrodynamic, etc...
 

• Nasa simulation of a PN's formation

Tools

    Tools that provides reading postscript files and others.
 

• Ghostscript for windows : postscript file reader
• Ghostscript for MacOS : postscript file reader

Web for pn

    Here are the complete web site files or web adress that are related to PN ! A lot of stuff is available...
 

• Adresse_webb : main web page of web adress that deals with PN
• Zhang pictures : picture galery of PN -> internet link
• BlackSkies : the web page that centralise data and amateur's observations -> internet link

  
  

  • Home pages : some home page of main PN researchers (not all)
  • Agnès ACKER (ESO-Strasbourg) -> internet link
  • Bruce BALICK (Washington U.) -> internet link
  • Trung HUA (LAS Marseille) -> internet link
  • Lubos KOHOUTEK (U. of Hambourg) -> internet link
  • Sun KWOK (U. of Calgary) -> internet link
  • Christophe MORISSET (LAS Marseille) -> internet link
  
  
• Data bases for researchers :
  
  
  • Vizir : catalogues data base
  • Aladin : finding star chart for any objects
  • Innsbruck : data base of pictures and reports about PN (great)
  • Skyview nasa : web page that can convert celestial positions
  • Heck : a 20 years compilation of astrophysical data

   

  • Simbad : find coordinates and bibliography
  • AstroPh : bibliographic researches
  • ADS : bibliographic researches
  • Starcast : spectral and picture data base
  • CDAC : spectral and picture canadian data base
  • Aikow spectro : spectroscopic data for a hundred of PN
  • Koppen : PN modelisation and numerical simulation plus more data

   

  • Cours d'astrophysique : astrophysics lesson from ucsd.edu
  • Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale (LAS Marseille)
  • Space Telescop Science Institut and PN from HST : HST web page
  • IAC : a collection of PN's picture from southern hemisphere

                                               En espérant que ce CDRom vous rendra service, faites une bonne visite.
 

                                                                                                                                         Benjamin MAUCLAIRE
 
 

This document was translated from L^AT_EX by HEVEA .