What is the red object just outside the blue nebulosity of the Trifid Nebula? I saw this in images made a few years ago of the Trifid but thought nothing too much about it. Then a few months ago I imaged M46 and was told by an Astrobin member that there was a second small red planetary just a bit farther out than NGC2438. I have compared the fields of my Trifid image and the stars in Stellarium and hopped around confirming I think that the 11th magnitude star near the red object is not the red object and that no star shows in Stellarium at the spot of the object. I have Stellarium set to 17th magnitude on everything. I thought it might be a Minkowski planetary but I can never get Simbad to open on my computer to get the catalogues of Mink planetaries. PK planetary nebulas are turned on in Stellarium. The Minkowski Catalogue has about 60 planetary nebulas in Sagittarius so maybe it is one of those. If someone knows what this object is I would love to know. It appears on others images of the Trifid too. Thanks, Jim
This is the link to the image detail I made with the red object circled.
https://www.astrobin.com/full/7wnl5v/0/
This is the link to the image detail I made with the red object circled.
https://www.astrobin.com/full/7wnl5v/0/
