Ancient `ghost' planetary nebulae discovered with amateur telescopes

As planetary nebulae evolve, they fade and dissipate into the surrounding interstellar medium, which makes them harder to detect. Modern, advanced amateur equipment can help to uncover this hidden population of ancient `ghost' planetary nebulae. Via careful processing of long-integration, narrow-band imagery with modest aperture telescopes at a dark-sky site, we detected three new candidate planetary nebulae (JAM 2, JAM 3, and JAM 4). Each measures several arcminutes across with O iii surface br