Discovery of new planetary nebulae in the Small Magellanic Cloud
  We present six new planetary nebulae (PNe) discovered in the Small Magellanic
Cloud (SMC) from deep UK Schmidt telescope (UKST) narrow band Halpha and
broad-band short-red "SR" continuum images and confirmed spectroscopically.
These 6 preliminary discoveries provide a 6% increase to the previously known
SMC PN population of ~100. Once spectroscopic follow-up of all our newly
identified candidates is complete, we expect to increase the total number of
known SMC PNe by up to 50%. This will permit a significant improvement to
determination of the SMC PN luminosity function (PNLF) and enable further
insights into the chemical evolution and kinematics of the SMC PN population.
