Central star of NGC 1514

The large planetary nebula NGC 1514 has a central star classified as A0; the star's continuum was known to be composite. Coude' spectra show the presence of stellar He ii absorption, making it possible to resolve the stellar continuum into a horizontal-branch A star and a visually subluminous 0 star. Spectrophotometry of Balmer lines gives the surface gravity of the HB A star and thus its luminosity as Mv = +0.8; the 0 star has Mv = +2.8. If we adopt the parameters of the nebula from Kohoutek, the ultraviolet luminosity of the 0 star requires T 100,000 K, and Aib = -3.8, typical of a normal planetary nucleus. The velocity of the A star is constant, near +48 + 2 km 1. a redetermination of the nebular velocity gives accordant results, #41 t 5 km 1