[AZ-Observing] Re: McNeil's Nebula Images

Should it be called the McNeil nebula, the Mallas-Kreimer nebula, or the 
Mallas-Kreimer-McNeil nebula? Or maybe the Mallas-Kreimer-McNeil-Welch 
nebula?

Jeff Hopkins wrote:

> From the
>
>  SKY & TELESCOPE's WEEKLY NEWS BULLETIN - February 20, 2004
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>A COSMIC GAME OF PEEKABOO
>
>Amateur astronomer Jay McNeil's January 23rd discovery of a newborn nebula
>near Messier 78 is proving to be even more intriguing than first thought.
>John Welch of Phoenix, Arizona, noticed that McNeil's Nebula actually
>appeared once before -- in an old Sky Publishing title, THE MESSIER ALBUM
>by John H. Mallas and Evered Kreimer (1978). That book contained a
>15-minute white-light image taken by Kreimer on October 22, 1966, which
>was first published in SKY & TELESCOPE in January 1970 (page 27).
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>
>Jeff
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