NGC 281 Pac Man Nebula in SHO (Todd Charlson)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas) · Contains: HD4647 · HD5005 · IC 1590 · LBN 615 · LBN 616 · LBN 621 · NGC 281 · Sh2-184

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NGC 281 Pac Man Nebula in SHO

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NGC 281 Pac Man Nebula in SHO

Pacman Nebula taken in SHO over 5 nights. This one was certainly fun one to capture. I enjoyed playing the video game, Pac Man as a teenager. This image is certainly a good representation of the character.

Edward Emerson Barnard discovered the nebula in August 1883, describing it as "a large faint nebula, very diffuse". Multiple star 'B 1' or β 1 was later discovered by S. W. Burnham, whose bright component is identified as the highly luminous O6 spectral class star, HD 5005 or HIP 4121. It consists of an 8th-magnitude primary with four companions at distances between 1.4 and 15.7 arcsec. There has been no appreciable change in this quintuple system since the first measures were made in 1875. ~Wikipedia

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RA (center)	00h52m02s.900
RA (top/left)	00h57m29s.315
RA (top/right)	00h46m47s.988
RA (bottom/right)	00h46m42s.527
RA (bottom/left)	00h57m08s.960

Dec (center)	+56°42′25″.50
Dec (top/left)	+57°09′08″.70
Dec (top/right)	+57°11′57″.17
Dec (bottom/right)	+56°14′49″.34
Dec (bottom/left)	+56°12′06″.70

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