V/127A MASH Catalogues of Planetary Nebulae (Parker+ 2006-2008)
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The Macquarie/AAO/Strasbourg H?  Planetary Nebula Catalogue (MASH)
    Parker Q.A., Acker A., Frew D.J., Hartley M., Peyaud A.E.J., Phillipps S.,
    Russeil D., Beaulieu S.F., Cohen M., Koppen J., Marcout J., Miszalski B.,
    Morgan D.H., Morris R.A.H., Ochsenbein F., Pierce M.J.,
   <Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 373, 79-94 (2006)>
   =2006MNRAS.373...79P
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MASH-II: more planetary nebulae from the AAO/UKST H? survey.
    Miszalski B., Parker Q.A., Acker A., Birkby J.L., Frew D.J., Kovacevic A.
   <Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 384, 525-534 (2008)>
   =2008MNRAS.384..525M
ADC_Keywords: Planetary nebulae ; Surveys ; Photometry, H-alpha ; Spectroscopy

Keywords: astronomical data bases: miscellaneous  - catalogues  - surveys -
          planetary nebulae: emission line - photometry

Description:
    The Macquarie/AAO/Strasbourg H? Planetary Nebula Catalogue (MASH)
    contains 903 new true, likely and possible Galactic Planetary Nebulae
    (PNe) discovered from the AAO/UKST H? survey of the southern
    Galactic plane. The combination of depth, resolution, uniformity, and
    areal coverage of the H ?survey has opened up an hitherto
    unexplored region of parameter space permitting the detection of this
    significant new PN sample. This catalogue includes also the spectra of
    the PNe as FITS files (in the "sp" subdirectory), and a gallery of
    images created as a combination of the H? and short red images
    of the survey.

    The second part, MASH-II (table mash2.dat) consists of over 300 true,
    likely and possible new Galactic PNe found after re-examination of the
    entire AAO/UKST H? survey of the Southern Galactic Plane in
    digital form. Over 240 of these new candidates were confirmed as bona
    fide PNe on the basis of spectroscopic observations. The spectra of
    this supplement will be available in the future.

File Summary:
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       FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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? ReadMe            80        .   This file
? mash1.dat        368      903   The MASH Catalog of Planetary Nebulae (paper I)
? mash2.dat        368      335   The MASH-II Supplement (from paper II)
? sp.dat            55     1657  *List of spectra available in "sp" subdirectory
? im_tn/*            0     1229   Color icons (JPEG),
? im_rgb/*           0     1252   Color images (JPEG)
? im_sr/*            0     1232   Images from Short Red survey (JPEG)
? im_ha/*            0     1255   Images in H? (JPEG)
? fits/*             0     2464   Images, in H? and Short Red, from SuperCosmos
? sp/*               0     2191  *Spectra (FITS)
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Note on sp.dat, sp/*: available for the first survey only.

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See also:
    V/84 : Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae (Acker+, 1992)
    http://www-wfau.roe.ac.uk/sss/halpha/ :  SuperCOSMOS H? Survey


Byte-by-byte Description of file:  mash1.dat  mash2.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label    Explanations
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       1  A1    ---     n_PNG    [TLP] True, Likely or Possible PN nature
   4- 15  A12   ---     PNG      Name of PN, based on Galactic position (1)
  17- 29  A13   ---     Name     Usual name of the PN (2)
  31- 32  I2    h       RAh      Right Ascension J2000 (hours)
  34- 35  I2    min     RAm      Right Ascension J2000 (minutes)
  37- 40  F4.1  s       RAs      Right Ascension J2000 (seconds)
      42  A1    ---     DE-      Declination J2000 (sign)
  43- 44  I2    deg     DEd      Declination J2000 (degrees)
  46- 47  I2    arcmin  DEm      Declination J2000 (minutes)
  49- 50  I2    arcsec  DEs      Declination J2000 (seconds)
  53- 60  F8.4  deg     GLon     Galactic longitude
  62- 69  F8.4  deg     GLat     Galactic latitude
  73- 78  F6.1  arcsec  MajDiam  ? Major diameter of the PN from H? image
  80- 85  F6.1  arcsec  MinDiam  ? Minor diameter of the PN from H? image
  88- 94  A7    ---     CS       Type of central star (4)
  96-102  A7    ---     Morph    Morphology of the nebula
 104-106  A3    ---     Tel      Telescope used (3)
 108-117  A10   "D/M/Y" ObsDate  ? Date of first spectroscopic observation
 121-127  A7    ---     HaExp    H? survey exposure number (5)
 129-135  A7    ---     HaFld    H? survey field number (5)
 138-368  A231  ---    Comments  Notes and comments
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Note (1): This designation follows the accepted IAU convention introduced
    in the "Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae" (Acker
    et al., 1992, Cat. V/84)
Note (2): This name was used also in the preliminary 2001 CD-ROM, and
    uses initials of prime discoverer surnames followed by truncated
    equatorial coordinates; the initials are PHR (Parker, Hartley,
    Russeil), PPA (Peyaud, Parker, Acker) and FP (Frew, Parker).
Note (3): Telescope used for the first spectroscopic observation:
    M1 = MSSSO 1.9m (Mount Stromlo, Australia)
    MS = MSSSO 2.3m (Mount Stromlo, Australia)
    SA = SAAO 1.9m  (South Africa)
    FL = FLAIR MOS system on UKST (Australia)
    6D = 6dF MOS system on UKST (Australia)
    E1 = ESO 1.5m (Chile)
    OH = OHP 1.9m
    AAT = Anglo-Australian Telescope
    VLT = ESO Very Large Telescope
Note (4): In mash2.dat only. It indicates the presence of a central star,
   and  may take the values B (blue), [WR] (Wolf-Rayet star) or
   wels (weak emission-line star).
Note (5): in mash1.dat only.

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Byte-by-byte Description of file:  sp.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label    Explanations
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   1- 12  A12   ---     PNG      Name of planetary nebula, as in "mash1.dat"
  14- 23  A10   "date"  Obs      Day of spectroscopic observation
  25- 55  A31   ---    FITSfile  Name of spectrum file, in "sp" subdirectory
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History:
  * 15-Jun-2006: Original version (905 PNe)
  * 05-Mar-2007: Removed 2 PNe: G340.4+06.3 = PHR1623-4039
                            and G002.5+01.3 = PHR1746-2603
  * 07-Aug-2007: one more removed (HP1441-6226 = G315.2-02.2, is part of SNR)
                 and new spectra added (in sp subdirectory)
  * 17-Aug-2007: corrections of column "Name", for lines:
             12. PHR0700-1144 corrected into PHR0700-1143
             42. PHR0740-2057 corrected into PHR0740-2055
            314. PHR1625-4523 corrected into PHR1625-4522
            412. PHR1720-4628 corrected into PHR1720-4633
            526. PPA1753-3157 corrected into PPA1753-2836
            726. PHR1804-2643 corrected into PHR1804-2642
  * 18-Feb-2008: one PN was missing, introduced (at end of files)
                 G271.8-05.1 = PHR0855-5310; new total of 903PNe.
  * 27-Feb-2008: MASH-II added.
  * 18-Jul-2008: mash2.dat modifications:
       23 PNe added (confirmed spectroscopically),
        3 PNe removed (G356.2-05.3, G352.3-05.6, G007.2-01.6);
       status (True or Likely) modified by spectroscopy.
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(End)  Quentin Parker [AAO/Macquarie],  Francois Ochsenbein [CDS]    15-Jun-2006
