Abell 13

== Overview ==
Abell 13 is a faint, planetary nebula located in the constellation of Orion, and its distance to Earth is 2315.71 light-years. It is a faint, red irregular oval, with the nebula's outline being the most noticeable. Abell 13 was discovered in August 1955 by American astronomer George Ogden Abell in his Palomar Observatory Sky Survey.https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1955PASP...67..258A/abstract George Ogden Abell originally included it as Abell 9 in his Abell Catalog of Planetary Nebulae in 1955, but in his 1966 publication, he assigned another number as Abell 13.
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