Observation by David Strange: IC447 Dreyer's Nebula

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David Strange

Observer

David Strange

Observed

2024 Jan 18 - 23:12

Uploaded

2024 Jan 22 - 20:20

Objects

IC447

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Constellation

Monoceros

Field centre

RA: 06^h31^m
Dec: +09°51'
Position angle: -0°23'

Field size

0°16' × 0°16'

Equipment

Celestron 9
ASI533MC

Exposure

20 x 120s

Location

Salcombe Regis, East Devon

Target name

IC447

Title

IC447 Dreyer's Nebula

About this image

On this night 240 years ago William Herchel discovered this nebula describing it as a pretty bright milky nebula with an electric brush. This was 50 years before the invention of the electric motor. It is a large molecular cloud in Monoceros, later catalogued as Dreyer's nebula NGC2245 in his New General Catalogue

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IC447_20240118_dgs.jpg (694.6 kB)

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