Poster abstract details
Two (X) shoots at two planetary nebulae
Abstract
The VLT spectrograph X-shooter is currently the only one capable of observing the range from 330 nm up to 2.5 $\mu$m in a single pointing. Its medium resolution R\sim10000 make it very suitable for PN research providing uniform flux scale for high fidelity emission line studies. The large instantaneous wavelength range enables many diagnostic line ratios for multiple ions to be investigated. We present two exploratory spectra of contrasting PNe - NGC 6302 as an example of very high ionization and M 2-9 as a high density dusty PN/symbiotic star.