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IC1396B Nebula

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IC1396B Nebula


Description: Part of the nebula IC 1396B in the constellation Cepheus imaged in the red light from hydrogen atoms. The image scale here is roughly 15 × 15 square arcminutes, with N to the left and E down. This image was obtained as part of the INT/WFC Photometric Hydrogen-Alpha Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane (IPHAS).

Credit: Nick Wright (UCL) and the IPHAS collaboration.

Date: 2005.

Technical information: Telescope: 2.5-m Isaac Newton Telescope.
Instrument: Wide Field Camera.
Detector: EEV.
Filters and exposure times: Hα and R.

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