The Crystal Ball: NGC 1514 (Ashraf AbuSara)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Taurus (Tau) · Contains: HD281679 · NGC 1514 · PK165-15.1

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The Crystal Ball: NGC 1514

This was data from late 2023 that I never got around to process. This was a quick project on a few hours I had in November. Surprisingly, this PN came out more detailed than I had originally anticipated. Really was a pleasant surprise. In retrospect wish I had time to get RGB stars, but HOO foraxx stars have to do.

"The Crystal Ball Nebula (NGC 1514) is a planetary nebula located in the constellation Taurus, near the border with Perseus. It has an apparent magnitude of 9.43 and lies at an approximate distance of 2,200 light years (700 parsecs) from Earth. It occupies an area of 2.2 arc minutes.

Astronomers have proposed that the nebula surrounds a binary star in a close orbit with a period of 4 to 9 days. The larger primary component in the system is believed to be the source of the expanding gas. A study published in 2003 suggests that the initial mass of the progenitor star was 4.5 solar masses and that the nebula is a product of a common envelope, which forms in close interacting binary systems if there is mass transfer from the primary to the secondary star." Source

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RA (center)	04h09m17s.290
RA (top/left)	04h08m24s.479
RA (top/right)	04h10m19s.967
RA (bottom/right)	04h10m09s.713
RA (bottom/left)	04h08m13s.798

Dec (center)	+30°46′33″.50
Dec (top/left)	+30°35′41″.12
Dec (top/right)	+30°38′43″.82
Dec (bottom/right)	+30°57′21″.50
Dec (bottom/left)	+30°54′21″.84

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