NGC1514, also known as the Crystal Ball Nebula, is a  planetary nebula in Taurus at RA 04h 09m 59s and DEC +30d 47m 02s.  It was discovered by Herschel in 1790 and changed his view of these objects from an agglomeration of unresolved stars around the bright star to a "faint, luminous atmosphere" surrounding the bright star.  The image is 35 'x 35' and north is up. 

The additional detail in this image results from using ultra-narrow 3 nm Astrodon H-a and OIII filters.  H-a was mapped to magenta-red and OIII was mapped to both blue and green.  Short RGB images provided star colors. SII was not present in test images.  This image also shows the first halo surrounding the core from an early expulsive event.  There is evidence of an even fainter halo (see arrows) extending ~ 3' beyond the core in the following inverted 5hr H-a image.

The system was guided with an SBIG ST-402 camera on an Astrodon MonsterMOAG off-axis guider. Astrodon Generation 2 RGB and 3 nm H-a and OIII 50mm square filters were used in the Apogee filter wheel. Data were collected automatically with CCDAutoPilot4 using MaximDL4.62 and PinPointPro for image linking.  Data were calibrated and pre-processed in CCDStack. Final processing was done in Photoshop CS3.