NGC 7822 (Gary Imm)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: LBN 580 · LBN 581 · LBN 582 · LBN 583 · LBN 584 · LBN 585 · LBN 586 · LBN 587 · LBN 588 · LBN 589 · LBN 590 · LDN 1264 · LDN 1266 · LDN 1267 · LDN 1268 · LDN 1269 · LDN 1270 · LDN 1271 · LDN 1273 · LDN 1275 · NGC 7762 · NGC 7822 · PK119+06.1 · PK120+09.1 · Sh2-171 · VdB2

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NGC 7822

This object is a large emission nebula located 3000 light years away in the constellation of Cepheus at a declination of +67 degrees. The nebula spans about 3 degrees in our apparent view, which corresponds to an actual width of 160 light years. The complex is sometimes referred to as Sh2-171 and Cederblad 214, although the true boundaries of these objects are slightly different.

I had to use a 2 frame RASA mosaic to capture the entire region.

Many "elephant trunks" - cosmic pillars of cold gas and dark dust – lie within this nebula. All of these trunks are pointing towards the Berkeley 59 star cluster, which is located at image center. The powerful winds and radiation of this star cluster sculpt and erode the dense pillar shapes.

The brightest stars in the image are in the foreground and do not lie within NGC 7822. Also in the foreground is one of my favorite parts of the image, the wide horizontal band across the image of distinctly shaped dark dust clouds which seem to floating by, obscuring but not completely blocking the beautiful bright emission background.

Finally, check out the interesting cloud shape towards center-left bottom, at 0005 RA and 6603 Dec. From this orientation (true north up), it looks a bit like the Super Bowl trophy. I could not find anything on this object, except that it is called simply IRAS 00029+6546 -- Cloud.

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RA (center)	00h01m44s.40
RA (top/left)	00h20m28s.19
RA (top/right)	23h43m45s.16
RA (bottom/right)	23h45m51s.86
RA (bottom/left)	00h17m00s.32

Dec (center)	+67°26′38″.4
Dec (top/left)	+69°18′09″.1
Dec (top/right)	+69°21′46″.0
Dec (bottom/right)	+65°27′52″.4
Dec (bottom/left)	+65°25′01″.7

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