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The MASH Catalog of Planetary Nebulae
The Macquarie/AAO/Strasbourg Hα Planetary Galactic Catalog
(MASH) contains 905 true, likely and possible new galactic planetary
nebulae discovered in the
AAO/UKST Hα survey
of the Southern galactic plane. The MASH catalog represents the
result of a 7-year
programme of identification and confirmatory spectroscopy.
A key strength is that
the entire sample has been derived from the same, uniform observational
data. The 60% increase
in known Galactic planetary nebulae represents the largest ever
incremental sample of
such discoveries and offers many new opportunities for research.
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