NGC 7129
| Reflection fog | |
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| NGC 7129 | |
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| Image taken with a 60 cm reflector telescope | |
| Constellation | Cepheus |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 21h 42m 59.0s |
| declination | + 66 ° 06 ′ 47 ″ |
| Further data | |
| Brightness (visual) |
11.5 likes |
| Angular expansion |
7 '× 7' |
| distance |
3500 ly (1070 pc) |
| diameter | 10 ly |
| history | |
| discovery |
Wilhelm Herschel |
| Date of discovery |
October 18, 1794 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 7129 • OCL 240 • LBN 497 • h 2131 • H IV 75 • GC 4702 • Cr 441 | |
| Aladin previewer | |
NGC 7129 is a reflection nebula in the constellation Cepheus in the northern sky , about 3500 light years from Earth . It is about ten light years in size. An open star cluster with about 130 young stars younger than a million years makes NGC 7129 glow.
The object was discovered on October 18, 1794 by the German-British astronomer William Herschel .
The reflection nebula NGC 7129 recorded with the Spitzer Space Telescope
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Web links
- Spitzer Space Telescope
- GoBlack
- Observation report
- Astronomy page
- NOAO
- Young Suns of NGC 7129 - Astronomy Picture of the Day of August 11, 2005.
- NGC7129
- astronews.com: Picture of the day February 14, 2014
- Spektrum.de : Amateur recordings [1]