This pair of obscure planetary nebulae is located in the constellation of Serpens at a declination of -13 degrees.
The planetary nebula FP 1755-1301 is the bright red arc at center. About a month ago, in the only other image of this object on Astrobin,
@Peter Goodhew described FP 1755-1301 as follows:
"FP 1755-1301 is an irregular possible planetary nebula with a size of 8 arcminutes. It was originally discovered in the MASH survey by David Frew and Quentin Parker. It was rediscovered by Dana Patchick in October 2018 and independently by Xavier Strottner and Marcel Drechsler in October 2019." I tried to research this object but could not find anything. I do not know if the wide swath of red emission is related to the PN, nor do I know the extent to which this object has been confirmed as a PN since it looks like it also could be an emission region.
Kohoutek 2-5, also known as PK14+6.1 as shown in the mouseover, is the small 30 arc-second squarish bipolar PN just above the center of the image.
At upper right, LDN 360 and 361 are interesting dark nebulae fringed by red emission.
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