BD+30 623 (NGC 1514) [#1306510476]
This system is located at:
-202.25
/ -218.6875
/ -807.40625
Galactic coordinates:
R: 860,601 / l: 165,937 / b: -14,721
Equatorial coordinates:
Right ascension: 4h 12m 26,037s /
Declination: 30° 54'15,779''
Habitable zone:
Metal-rich body (5 to 354 ls), Earth-like world (5.570 to 8.354 ls), Water world (4.567 to 17.689 ls), Ammonia world (11.557 to 31.447 ls), Terraformable (4.338 to 8.656 ls)
Estimated value: 1.264 cr
This system was visited for the first time on EDSM by Ishwin.
It was named by the Galactic Mapping Project with the name of: NGC 1514
961 ships passed through BD+30 623 space, including 2 ships in the last 7 days.
0 ship passed through BD+30 623 space in the last 24 hours.
Before discovering NGC 1514 (also known as the Crystal Ball Nebula) in 1790, William Herschel believed that all nebulae were star clusters that were simply too distant to be resolved with 18th Century telescopes. Herschel was so captivated by NGC 1514's round shape and the bright blue object at its center that he posited the nebula was a single star 'surrounded with a faintly luminous atmosphere' -- opening the door to our current understanding of interstellar gas clouds.
Later astronomers theorized that NGC 1514 might, in fact, be a pair of stars locked in a short orbital period, but FSD-enabled stellar surveys have since validated Herschel's original single-star theory. The nebula contains no planetary bodies and there is a tourist beacon ('Little Blue') approximately 800 light seconds away from the main star.
