Kronberger 131 - A mysterious planetary nebula in Auriga

Image Description and Details : Here is a planetary nebula you probably never heard of. Kronberger 131 (Kn131), also known as PN G162.9-01.6 is a mysterious and unusually shaped planetary nebula in the constellation Auriga. Kn 131 is a small and very faint bipolar planetary nebula about 4x3 arc min in size. It has faint wing like appendages on each end and contains HII and OIII emission. Exposed in RGB one would not know something is even here. To the east and west of the nebula is a really faint area of HII emission. Kn131 is also cataloged as PN G162.9-01.6. Looking around the web one can not find any images of this object. This may be the first amateur image. The image is a full resolution crop of the area around the nebula. The image is a HOO image with RGB stars. The image resolution is .62 arcsec/pixel.

Copyright: Jonathan Talbot