Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Gemini (Gem)  ·  Contains:  NGC 2371
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NGC 2371 - A Celestial Candy, Earle Waghorne
NGC 2371 - A Celestial Candy
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NGC 2371 - A Celestial Candy

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NGC 2371 - A Celestial Candy, Earle Waghorne
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NGC 2371 - A Celestial Candy

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NGC 2371 (also NGC 2372) is a planetary nebula with two lobes, located 400 light year from Earth, in the constellation Gemini. John Louis Emil Dreyer, in compiling the New General Catalogue gave it two designations because, visually, it could have been two objects. Dreyer spent much of his career in Ireland, initially working as assistant to Lord Rosse (the son and successor of Lord Rosse who built the Leviathon at Parsonstown) and later at Dunsink Observatory, part of Trinity College Dublin.

The central star of NGC2371 has a spectral type WO1, similar to that of an oxygen rich Wolf-Rayet star [1,2].

To me it always looks like one of those hard candies that come wrapped in colorful foils.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_2371-2
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Louis_Emil_Dreyer

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NGC 2371 - A Celestial Candy, Earle Waghorne