IC 5146 (Sh2-125, LBN 424) aka "The Cocoon" Bright Nebula in Cygnus
Located at: RA 21 hours 53 minutes 29 seconds, Dec +47 degrees 15 minutes 41 seconds
Size: 11' x 10'; Magnitude: 7.2; Class: Emission (Cluster = Collinder 470 = III 2 p n)
North is up
West to the right
| Telescope: |
8" f5 Newtonian reflector |
| Camera: |
ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -20c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56 |
| Image: |
Lumicon Deep Sky filter, 350 minutes (35 x 10 minute subs), 09/17/20/23/2007 |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.3, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes: | IC 5146 is more famously known as the 'Cocoon' nebula. This wide field image (by Adam Block/NOAO/AURA/NSF) well shows its position in the Milky Way at the end of the dark lane B 168. The Open Cluster Collinder 470 is 'involved' with IC 5146, but is not equal to IC 5146, and is cataloged as a separate object |