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Old 17-03-2008, 04:06 PM
Karlsson
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Originally Posted by tornado33 View Post
Hi
last night I went for the most southern planetary in the sky (that I know of anyway). On Star Atlas pro no other PN is closer to the SCP than this one.
Just for the fun of it I checked the SIMBAD database to see whether there are any PN south of this one, no matter how faint or insignificant...

The only object it returned was ESO 011-01, listed as a 'possible PN' at RA 20h35.5m, Dec -83°03' - 'possible' in this case probably means 'not a galaxy'.

So I guess that makes NGC 3195 indeed the southernmost confirmed PN...
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