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IC 1396 · Elephant's Trunk Nebula

IC 1396 · Star cluster with nebula · Cepheus

Elephant's Trunk Nebula

Also known as LBN 451 · LBN 452

Sharpless 131
Smart Telescope · Large Targets

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Type: Star cluster with nebula
Constellation: Cepheus
Position (J2000): 21h 38m 58s · +57° 29′ 21″
Discovered: by Edward Emerson Barnard in 1893

Pictures: 0
Size: 14′ × 4′
Distance: ~2,700 ly
Best months: Jul–Sep

Catalogue data from OpenNGC by Mattia Verga, CC BY-SA 4.0. Distances, discoverers and common names from Wikidata, CC0.

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