AstroBinAstroBin
Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  NGC 1514  ·  PGC 1916109  ·  PK165-15.1
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
NGC 1514, Gary Imm
NGC 1514, Gary Imm

NGC 1514

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
NGC 1514, Gary Imm
NGC 1514, Gary Imm

NGC 1514

Equipment

Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Celestron EdgeHD 11"
Imaging Cameras
ZWO ASI1600MM Pro
Mounts
Astro-Physics Mach1 GTO
Filters
Astrodon Gen2 I-Series Tru-Balance Blue · Astrodon Gen2 I-Series Tru-Balance Green · Astrodon Gen2 I-Series Tru-Balance Lum · Astrodon Gen2 I-Series Tru-Balance Red · Astrodon H-alpha 5nm · Astrodon OIII 3nm
Accessories
Celestron Off-Axis Guider · MoonLite Revised CHL 2.5 inch Large Format Crayford EDGE Focuser · ZWO EFW 7 x 2″
Software
Main Sequence Software Sequence Generator Pro (SGP) · Open PHD Guiding Project PHD2 · Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
Guiding Cameras
ZWO ASI174MM

Acquisition details

Dates:
Oct. 14, 2020 ·  Oct. 15, 2020 ·  Oct. 16, 2020
Frames:
Astrodon Gen2 I-Series Tru-Balance Blue: 30×120″(1h) (gain: 139.00) -15°C bin 1×1
Astrodon Gen2 I-Series Tru-Balance Green: 30×120″(1h) (gain: 139.00) -15°C bin 1×1
Astrodon Gen2 I-Series Tru-Balance Red: 30×120″(1h) (gain: 139.00) -15°C bin 1×1
Astrodon H-alpha 5nm: 24×300″(2h) (gain: 300.00) -15°C bin 1×1
Astrodon OIII 3nm: 24×300″(2h) (gain: 300.00) -15°C bin 1×1
Integration:
7h
Avg. Moon age:
27.99 days
Avg. Moon phase:
3.61%

RA center: 04h09m17s.690

DEC center: +30°46′33″.42

Pixel scale: 0.281 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: -3.884 degrees

Field radius: 0.190 degrees

More info:Open 

Find images in the same area

Resolution: 4071x2690

File size: 3.9 MB

Locations: Backyard (Mag 20.8 - Bortle 4.5), Onalaska, Texas, United States

Data source: Backyard

Description

This is the Crystal Ball Nebula, located about 2000 light years away in the constellation of Taurus at a declination of +31 degrees. This PN spans over 3 arc-minutes in our apparent view, which corresponds to a diameter of 2 light years.

The bright 9th magnitude progenitor star is clearly visible. For me, the beauty of this object lies in the three dimensional look of the various gas sphere layers which were ejected from the dying star over time. I find the geometric patterns of the dark void patterns to be fascinating.

For a non-Messier object, I was surprised at the brightness of this nebula. I understand now how the appearance of this specific object caused the great William Herschel in 1790 to rethink the accepted idea at the time that all nebulae were simply stars that were too distant to resolve, laying the groundwork for our current understanding of these nebulae. His observation reads in part,

"A most singular phenomenon . . . The star is perfectly in the centre, and the atmosphere is so diluted, faint, and equal throughout, that there can be no surmise of its consisting of stars, nor can there be a doubt of the evident connection between the atmosphere and the star. Another star not much less in brightness, and in the same field with the above, was perfectly free from any such appearance."

Comments

Revisions

  • NGC 1514, Gary Imm
    Original
  • NGC 1514, Gary Imm
    B

B

Description: Astrobin Mouseover

Uploaded: ...

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

NGC 1514, Gary Imm

In these public groups

Texas Astronomy
Cloudy Nights
Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope (SCT) Imagers
Images from the EdgeHD Series
Planetary Nebulae
ZWO ASI1600MM/QHY163M

In these collections

All of My Favorite images (100 objects)
CATALOG - Griffiths PN (complete)
CATALOG - Secret Deep (complete)
PN
×

Warning!

This operation will reload the current page. If you have any unsaved information in a form, it will be lost.

You can also dismiss this window, and your operation will be applied at the next page navigation.