Finn's Nebula around BE Cam (Göran Nilsson)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Camelopardalis (Cam) · Contains: PGC 13501 · PGC 14241 · PGC 165366 · PGC 166479 · PGC 2677859 · PGC 2685671 · PGC 2688948 · PGC 2690279 · PGC 2691470 · PGC 2692635 · PGC 2693450 · PGC 2695052 · PGC 2797304 · PGC 2797309 · PGC 2817401

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Finn's Nebula around BE Cam

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Finn's Nebula around BE Cam

I stumbled upon this patch of nebulosity on Aladin Sky Atlas (DSS2) and after uploading the image here I could search for images from the same area. I could only find one previous image of the object and it turned out that this was one of @Marcel Drechsler's New Discoveries from 2018 (https://www.astrobin.com/378375/B/). Finn's Nebula is an orange-yellow reflection nebula of the Merope type, being similar to the nebula around the Merope in the Pleiades. According to Marcel BE Cam is a variable star so also much of the nebula varies in brightness. I am not sure why it is called Finn's Nebula, but maybe Marcel can enlighten us on the etymology.

The nebula is reasonably bright, which allowed me to catch it under a near full moon using the NBZ filter.

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RA (center)	03h48m38s.45
RA (top/left)	03h31m51s.17
RA (top/right)	04h05m04s.81
RA (bottom/right)	04h07m00s.99
RA (bottom/left)	03h30m36s.50

Dec (center)	+66°02′32″.1
Dec (top/left)	+64°50′04″.9
Dec (top/right)	+64°47′22″.7
Dec (bottom/right)	+67°07′27″.1
Dec (bottom/left)	+67°10′59″.5

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