Rc. Kraankorteweg et al., 2 NEW PLANETARY-NEBULAE DISCOVERED IN A GALAXY SEARCH IN THE SOUTHERNMILKY-WAY, Astronomy and astrophysics, 315(3), 1996, pp. 549-554
Spectroscopic observations have been carried out for eleven objects be
lieved to be planetary nebulae on the basis of their optical appearanc
e. They were discovered in an ongoing deep search for galaxies in the
Southern Milky Way (Kraan-Korteweg & Woudt 1994). The objects were obs
erved with the 1.9m telescope of the South African Astronomical Observ
atory during our program for obtaining redshifts of obscured galaxies
in the ''Zone of Avoidance''. Of the eleven objects, three proved too
faint for a definite classification, four were galaxies with radial ve
locities between v=3920 km/s and v=14758 km/s, but four were confirmed
as planetary nebulae (PNE). Their relative line strengths and radial
velocities have been determined. The PNE are on average fairly large (
23 '' - 30 ''). Two of them (PN G298.3+06.7 and PN G323.6-04.5) were p
reviously unknown; for these we show H alpha and [O III] images.