RA:

17:50:11

Dec:

-37:03:27

Distance from Sun:

36.5 kly

Distance from Galactic Center:

11.4 kly

Apparent Diameter:

5 arc sec

Brightness:

? mag vis

Hiding in the multitude of stars of globular cluster NGC 6441, planetary nebula JaFu 2 was not discovered until 1997, when Jacoby and Fullton found it together with another globular cluster planetary, JaFu 1 in Palomar 6 (Jacoby et.al. 1997). It is one of only four known planetary nebulae which are probably members of globular clusters.

The left image is an H-alpha image of the planetary nebula JaFu 2 taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The right image was obtained from the same data after substracting the stars. Discovered by Jacoby and Fullton in 1997 (Jacoby et.al. 1997).

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Links

• George Jacoby's NGC 6441/JaFu 2 page
• JaFu 1 & JaFu 2 PNe Challendes page [Archival Copy]

• George H. Jacoby, Jon A. Morse, L. Kellar Fullton, K. B. Kwitter, and R. B. C. Henry, 1997. Planetary Nebulae in the Globular Cluster PAL 6 and NGC 6441. Astronomical Journal, Vol. 114, pp. 2611-2625 (December 1997) [ADS: 1997AJ....114.2611J]