09-02-2008, 01:45 PM
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Southern Amateur
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Sydney
Posts: 283
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ngcles
,You mentioned the "Pencil Nebula" in your report and I assume you mean NGC 2736 in Vela which is probably associated with the Vela SNR.
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Les from my yet unpublished Neat Southern Planetary (NSP 42), notes that NGC 2736 is certainly "The Pencil" (09h 00.4 -45 deg 54') in Vela.
I like my view that...
"This small patch of nebulosity is sometimes called "The Pencil" I prefer calling the more descriptive "The Shard", as the word "shard" means "a broken piece of a brittle artefact", which adequately described this small part of the Vela Supernova Remnant." 
Andrew
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