IC 405

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Diffuse fog
Flaming Star Nebula
Image taken with a telescope with a 13 cm aperture and an exposure time of 225 minutes.
Image taken with a telescope with a 13 cm aperture and an exposure time of 225 minutes.
Constellation Carter
Position
equinox : J2000.0
Right ascension 05h 16m 12s
declination + 34 ° 16 '00 ″
Further data
Brightness  (B-band)

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Angular expansion

30.0 '× 20.0'

history
discovery

Johann Martin Schäberle

Date of discovery

March 21, 1892

Catalog names
IC  405 • Caldwell 31, Sharpless 229
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IC 405 is the name of a diffuse nebula in the constellation Fuhrmann . IC 405 has an angular dimension of 30.0 '× 20.0' and an apparent magnitude of about 10 mag.

The “IC” in the name stands for Index Catalog , an astronomical catalog of galactic nebulae, star clusters and galaxies, in which it is entered at 405th position. In English it is also called the Flaming Star Nebula ; further catalog names are Caldwell 31 and Sharpless 229.

Web links

Commons : IC 405  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. ↑ a b SEDS : IC 405
  3. ↑ Seligman