The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth. [1] .

Complete details of deep sky object IC 1369 in the constellation of Cygnus.

From Virginia Beach , IC1369 is visible in the dawn sky, rising at 02:05 (EST) and reaching an altitude of 25° above the north-eastern horizon before fading from view as dawn breaks at around 05:53.

The open cluster IC 1369 was discovered on 27 April 1891 by the Danish astronomer Frederick Pechüle using the 11 inch Merz refractor at the Copenhagen Observatory. Dreyers description «small nebula cluster of stars of 13 mag» suggests that he thought to see a faint nebula in the cluster. [277, 313]

Nov 21, 2001 · The Kopernik image shows that IC 1369 is an open cluster without any nebulosity that is about 4 arc minutes in diameter. The red and blue survey images taken with the Palomar 48 inch Schmidt Camera confirm this.

Jul 27, 2019 · The Elephant's Trunk Nebula (IC1369) imaged in Hydrogen-alpha by Andrew Klinger, on Flickr . Equipment: OTA: William Optics GT81 w/0.8x reducer (382mm fl at f/4.7) 74mm aperture stop-down ring (brings scope to f/5.2) Mount: Orion Sirius EQ-G (HEQ-5) Guidescope: Orion 50mm guidescope Guiding camera: Orion StarShoot Autoguider

Open Cluster IC 1369 is estimated at 6,800 light years distant from Earth and an estimated age of 437 million years. Horizontal FOV is approximately 85' - full size image scale of 1.96 arcsec/pixel.

ic1369 Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: IC 1369 · The star 24Per

IC1369 Open cluster and B361 dark nebula in Cygnus: Date: September 11-13, 2012: Exposure: LRGB 180:39:45:48 (cropped slightly) Camera: STL11000M with AstroDon Gen II filters (water-assisted cooling) Telescope: ASA 10N f/3.7 on AP900GTO CP3: Guiding: Remote guide head with MiniBorg 50 mm:

IC 1369 is an open star cluster in the constellation of Cygnus. It lies 6.700 light years away and contains approximately 40 stars. The dark nebula to the right is Barnard 361. NGC 7000, the …