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NGC 7380 and Sh2-142 Nebula

NGC 7380 is an open cluster discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1787. Open cluster NGC 7380 is nicely intertwined with a bright diffuse nebula which bears the catalog designation Sh2-142.
Caroline Herschel discovered this cluster in 1787, when her brother William was absent. As usual, William Herschel included his sister's discovery in his catalog, and labeled it H VIII.77.
(Text adapted from http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/ngc/n7380.html)

NGC 7380 and Sh2-142 Nebula in Cepheus

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NGC 7380 is an open cluster with an associated nebulosity.  It is 25 arcminutes large, with a visual magnitude of 7.20.

HR8677 is a blue star, barely visible at nacked eye from a very dark sky. Its visual magnitude is 6.4.

Sh2-142 is the catalogue name of the nebulosity associated with the NGC 7380 open cluster.

 

 

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The position of NGC 7380 (in the red circle) in Cepheus constellation.
Image from Cartes du Ciel.

In order to produce the color image seen here, I worked with data coming from 2 different photographic plates taken at Palomar Observatory between 1989 and 1991. The original file is 7,095x6,078 pixels with a resolution of about 1 arcsec per pixel. The image show an area of sky large 2° x 1.7° (for comparison, the full-Moon is about 0.5° in diameter).
Copyright: Davide De Martin.

Other images of the same celestial field found online

This image is a composite from black and white images taken with the Palomar Observatory's 48-inch (1.2-meter) Samuel Oschin Telescope as a part of the second National Geographic Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS II). The images were recorded on two type of glass photographic plates - one sensitive to red light and the other to blue light and later they were digitized. Credit: Caltech, Palomar Observatory, Digitized Sky Survey.

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