What Fortunes Do You See Gazing into the Crystal Ball Nebula (NGC1514)
Image Title: What Fortunes Do You See Gazing into the Crystal Ball Nebula (NGC1514)
Copyright: Franklin Mare
Date image was taken: December 01, 2024
Location (was image taken with remote scope?): New Orleans, LA
Image Description and Details: What a great little planetary nebula (and it is pretty small. 2arcmin in diameter for the bright inner part and 3arcmin in diameter for the outer halo)! It sits just 1500 lightyears away. It was this object that made Herschel rethink a lot of what he though the heavens were comprised of. I took a full set of LRGB images as well as dedicated OIII and Ha images to give as much detail into this little PN as I could.
Not only is the PN itself just a gem, there are so many interacting galaxies in the background which would easily fit into the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. One very intriguing one to me is one with an interacting double lobed structure (LEDA 1905882). The WISE J04085.78+311431.4 with pinwheel or octopus arms is sitting at a staggering 685 million light years away. It truly must be quite massive to have so much detail resolved on it. Looking through the NED database and IRSA finder charts I may have some of the best resolution of these galaxies in an image.
There is also dust reflecting off bright magnitude 8 star HD26125 that is designated Ced28 Interstellar Medium.
Frames:
Antlia EDGE H-alpha 4.5nm 1.25": 6×900″(1h 30′)
Antlia EDGE OIII 4.5 nm 1.25": 32×900″(8h)
Antlia V-Pro Blue 1.25": 75×180″(3h 45′)
Antlia V-Pro Green 1.25": 100×180″(5h)
Antlia V-Pro Luminance 1.25": 540×60″(9h)
Antlia V-Pro Red 1.25": 100×180″(5h)
Integration:
32h 15′
Equipment Details: Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
iOptron 10-inch F/4 Imaging Newtonian
Imaging Cameras
ZWO ASI294MM Pro
Mounts
Sky-Watcher NEQ6-Pro
Filters
Antlia EDGE H-alpha 4.5nm 1.25" × · Antlia EDGE OIII 4.5 nm 1.25" · Antlia V-Pro Blue 1.25" · Antlia V-Pro Green 1.25" · Antlia V-Pro Luminance 1.25" · Antlia V-Pro Red 1.25"
Accessories
Orion Thin off-axis-guider (OAG) · Sharpstar 2" 0.95× coma corrector (CRC2095) × · ZWO EFW 8 x 1.25″ / 31mm
Software
Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight · Russell Croman Astrophotography BlurXTerminator · Russell Croman Astrophotography NoiseXTerminator · Russell Croman Astrophotography StarXTerminator · SetiAstro Blemish Blaster · SetiAstro Cosmic Clarity Denoise · SetiAstro Statistical Stretch
Guiding Cameras
ZWO ASI290MM Mini
Name: Franklin Marek
Website or Facebook Profile: http://www.setiastro.com
AAPOD2 Title: What Fortunes Do You See Gazing into the Crystal Ball Nebula (NGC1514)
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