Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  B160  ·  B161  ·  B162  ·  B163  ·  B365  ·  B367  ·  Erakis  ·  Erakis (μ Cep)  ·  HD205196  ·  HD205510  ·  HD205917  ·  HD205948  ·  HD206081  ·  HD206183  ·  HD206267  ·  HD206482  ·  HD206773  ·  HD207086  ·  HD239710  ·  HD239712  ·  HD239724  ·  HD239725  ·  HD239727  ·  HD239729  ·  HD239748  ·  HD239758  ·  HD239767  ·  IC 1396  ·  LBN 451  ·  LBN 452  ·  And 43 more.
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IC1396 featuring The Elephant`s Trunk Nebula and The Garnet Star, Roy Hagen
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IC1396 featuring The Elephant`s Trunk Nebula and The Garnet Star

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IC1396 featuring The Elephant`s Trunk Nebula and The Garnet Star

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The IC 1396 is a region of ionized gas, containing the more famous Elephant`s Trunk nebula and lies in a distance of 2400 lightyears away from earth.
Sorry friends, no elephant, only the trunk.
A bright red star shows up in the image,(Mu) μ Cephei aka. Herschel’s Garnet star is one of the largest known stars, a red supergiant, which placed in the position of our Sun, would reach past Jupiters orbit.
Garnet is a red(ish) group of minerals which have been used for thousand of years as gem stone and grinding/polishing material.

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