IC 1396 The Elephant's Trunk Nebula (KTAZ)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: B161 · B365 · B367 · HD205196 · HD205948 · HD206081 · HD206183 · HD206267 · HD206482 · HD206773 · HD207086 · HD239710 · HD239712 · HD239724 · HD239725 · HD239727 · HD239729 · HD239748 · IC 1396 · LBN 451 · LBN 452 · LBN 455 · LBN 456 · LBN 457 · LDN · LDN 1085 · LDN 1086 · LDN 1087 · LDN 1090 · LDN 1092 · And 20 more.

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IC 1396 The Elephant's Trunk Nebula

The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 located in the constellation Cepheus.

Stunning emission nebula IC 1396 mixes glowing cosmic gas and dark dust clouds in the high and far off constellation of Cepheus. Energized by the bright central star seen here, this star forming region sprawls across hundreds of light-years, spanning over three degrees on the sky while nearly 3,000 light-years from planet Earth. Among the intriguing dark shapes within IC 1396, the winding Elephant's Trunk nebula lies just below and left of center in this image. Stars could still be forming inside the dark shapes by gravitational collapse. But as the denser clouds are eroded away by powerful stellar winds and radiation, any forming stars will ultimately be cutoff from the reservoir of star stuff.

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Description: I wanted to grab a tight crop of the only the Elephant's Trunk. The resolution of the 2600 is pretty amazing.

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RA (center)	21h38m57s.624
RA (top/left)	21h33m34s.265
RA (top/right)	21h49m58s.756
RA (bottom/right)	21h44m44s.873
RA (bottom/left)	21h27m48s.559

Dec (center)	+57°28′36″.80
Dec (top/left)	+56°09′56″.71
Dec (top/right)	+57°14′39″.80
Dec (bottom/right)	+58°46′28″.46
Dec (bottom/left)	+57°38′50″.91

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