http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ccd-newastro/message/69648

So that you don’t have to go there just to get the coordinates, they are:

RA: 19:21:39
DEC: +38:18:57
based on EPOC: 2000 coordinates

Thanks go out to Stan!

jbs

Aha! Found it.

See :

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/03/25/blast-site-blastocyte/

For the BA’s take on that supernova remmnant you mentioned.

White dwarf planets ~wise see :

http://www.space.com/6279-dead-stars-harbor-asteroids.html

and :

http://www.washington.edu/news/articles/uw-astrophysicist-white-dwarfs-could-be-fertile-ground-for-other-earths

for more info. on that.

@29. Amateur : “I was just wondering, does anyone have the RA/Dec for this object.”

I don’t know either and would love to as well – plus the answer to what is Kronberger 61′s apparent magnitude?

Can amateurs see it in average telescopes and average skies – does anyone know and care to enlighten us please?

@26. lqd :

What happens to the planets of a star that becomes a planetary nebula? If they aren’t gobbled up during the red giant phase, do they keep orbiting the white dwarf if the gravity is strong enough?

Yes, I think they would. Fairly certain there is at least one white dwarf star known (& posisbly more) that has disrupted / destroyed an object orbiting it whicvh you would presume existed previously. Planets are pretty hard to totally destroy.

The recent issue (2nd July 2011) of New Scientist magazine actually had an article on the possibility of habitable planets around white dwarf stars too which was titled “White Dwarf Worlds” (cover) or “Star lite” (given on the article itself, page 37) by Ken Croswell.

It´s beautiful!

duherherher

@ 19. Dr Flimmer : Wait till they find (and accurately describe) a cricket ball-shaped nebula – *then* we’ll be talking!

@12. Carson Myers asked : “Is the blue star in the center of the nebula the core of the red-giant?”

I think so, yes, that’s the white dwarf or central planetary nebular star. It used to be the core of the red giant star which has now changed into a white dwarf as its outer layers have sloughed away.

Is there any relationship between the poly-gloubalar dynamics of the expanding Kronberger and trinity spheres?

If someone could tell me the correct terminology for what I am trying to describe, that would be appreciated too. Thanks.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/06/05/one-ring-to-fool-them-all/

back on the 5th June 2008.

It was an odd nebula where a binary of sub-giant Sirian (type A) stars lie at the heart of the Planetary nebula rather than the expected white dwarf star.

Please can you tell us BA if there has been any progress on that Planetary Nebula mystery at all?

Also please, what do you think of my idea that it might be the result of a massive rapidly spinning star like Achernar, Regulus and Altair ( http://kencroswell.com/RegulusIsOblate.html ) spinning up so fast that it split in half resulting in the two white sub-giants immersed in the old shell of gas and dust emitted by a former B or even O type “shell star” – such as for example Zeta Tauri?
( http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/zetatau.html )

Is that plausible, a reasonable suggestion in this case do you think?

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/05/24/nearby-planetary-system-is-seriously-screwed-up/

with more on Upsilon Andromedae here :

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/10/21/sunburned-planet-turns-hot-face-away-from-star/

via the BA blog and here :

http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/upsand.html

with photographic finderchart via Kaler’s ‘Stars’ website if folks are curious.

I’m thinking if the Kronberger 61 exoplanetary system was like that – or even more messed up with several massive gas giant planets in Pluto-like eccentric and steeply tilted orbits – could that explain the nebula’s shape?

Has / could anyone model or calculate this?

Such exoplanetary systems may be fairly rare although a number of exoplanets do appear to have odd even comet-like orbits (eg. HD 80606b,see BA blog ‘Weather sizzles on a planet that kisses its star’ posted January 28th, 2009 11:00 AM.) which could be a key factor couldn’t it?

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* Albeit a rather mistaken one of *our* solar system! Look close to our Sun to spot the mistakes.

Looking at the steering wheel-like appearence of the barred spiral right next to it perhaps we could call this the Airbag nebula?

The overall symmetry of the nebula is striking — in fact, it’s sphericity makes me inclined to think the star is not part of a binary; the centrifugal force of two stars revolving around each other tends to flatten such nebula and create bizarre shapes (see Related Posts below). The filaments creating the soccerball-like structure are probably due to the nebula expanding into surrounding gas, compressing it (or a faster wind from the stellar core that has caught up with and slammed into the slower-moving red giant wind). I’ve never seen any other planetary nebula that looks quite like this one though.

Could it be caused by the central star having a messed up system of exoplanets like Upsilon Andromedae where several massive exoplanets have severely inclined orbits?

@11 Adam: You may be on to something, there! The convolutions DO suggest the surface of some, er…otherworldly brain. Somebody get Josie a research grant and put her on the case!

jbs

Er, Warp Factor 2 Mr. Sulu!