IC 1396
Elephant’s Truck Nebula
Object
Cross Reference
Common Name
Object Type
Constellation
English Name
IC 1396
NGC 6901 / vdB 142
Elephant’s Truck Nebula
n/a
Cepheus
The Cepheus
RE
DEC
Size
Magnitude
Morphology
Distance
Extends
Age
20h 22m 25s
-06° 30′ 06″
n/a
n/a
n/a
2,600 ly
20 ly long
n/a
Location
Mount
Telescope
Type
Camera / CCD
Filter
Kelling Heath, North Norfolk
Sky-Watcher AZ-EQ6GT
Atlair Astro Lightwave
66ED-R refractor
CCD Atik 414ex (mono)
Luminance (Lum)
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Notes – IC 1396
– IC 1396, vdB 142, Elephant’s Truck Nebula
– faint and very large emission nebula
– contains an open cluster with 50 stars
– detached, weakconcentration of stars
– large range in brightness
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Notable features
– open cluster
– dark nebula B160
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