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Where to find the best professional O3 images?

OIII Help Needed
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Bill McLaughlin avatar
Bill McLaughlin avatar
I recently completed to semi wide field images using my Epsilon 130 and in the O3 starless image I noted several very small but moderately intense O3 sources.  These were present faintly in most of the subs so are likely real.  They do not match any objects that I have been able to find.  

Where is the best place to find professional images of a given area in O3? Maybe tiny planetaries or maybe comets. I have tried the PI annotation script with extended databases and that shows nothing.

Thanks!
Habib Sekha avatar
Habib Sekha avatar
Hi Bill, if in the northern hemisphere you might want to try this (if looking for an additional confirmation):

https://www.astrobin.com/forum/c/astrophotography/deep-sky/incredible-narrowband-survey-for-finding-new-targets/?page=1#post-196555


You also might want to enter the coordinates in Simbad. If known to it then there might be references to scientific papers.


I processed an object in which I did find [O III] not seen in other pictures. Search in scientific literature was relatively easy because object was already known.

If those [O III] sources are near a known object a google or google scholar might help. You’ll have to put the correct nomenclature in; [O III]  sometimes in scientific literature incorrectly without the space.

HTH
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