NGC 2346 - Butterfly Planetary Nebula (Eddie Bagwell)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Monoceros (Mon) · Contains: NGC 2346 · PK215+03.1

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NGC 2346 - Butterfly Planetary Nebula

NGC 2346
PK 215 + 3.1
PN G215.6 + 3.6
Minkowski 1-10
Butterfly Nebula

NGC 2346 is a Planetary Nebula with a magnitude of 11.6 that lies 2,000 light-years from Earth in the Monoceros Constellation. At the center of the nebula lies a pair of stars that are so close together that they orbit around each other every 16 days. Astronomers believe that one of the stars, when it evolved and expanded to become a red giant, actually swallowed its companion star in an act of stellar cannibalism. The resulting interaction led to a spiraling together of the two stars, culminating in ejection of the outer layers of the red giant.

Notes: Very bright object that showed up well in the subs with the dual-band filter.

Thanks, Eddie

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RA (center)	07h09m22s.654
RA (top/left)	07h08m30s.867
RA (top/right)	07h09m13s.429
RA (bottom/right)	07h10m14s.496
RA (bottom/left)	07h09m31s.893

Dec (center)	-00°48′20″.49
Dec (top/left)	-00°39′45″.10
Dec (top/right)	-01°03′42″.50
Dec (bottom/right)	-00°56′55″.51
Dec (bottom/left)	-00°32′57″.73

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