NGC 896 (IC 1795, LBN 645) Bright Nebula in Cassiopeia
Located at: RA 02 hours 26 minutes 40 seconds, Dec +60 degrees 05 minutes 00 seconds
Size: 21'; Magnitude: --; Class: Emission
North is up
West to the right
| Telescope: |
8" f5 Newtonian reflector |
| Camera: |
ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -10c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56 |
| Image: |
Lumicon Red filter, 720 minutes (72 x 10 minute subs), 11/16/17/18/2008; seeing 2.6-4.2 FWHM per CCDStack |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.4.1, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes: |
As with Czernik 9, Czernik 10, Czernik 13 and Tombaugh 4, NGC 896 is located in or near IC 1805. NGC 896 is located just 25 minutes NNW of Tombaugh 4. See Jay Ballauer's wide field image of the IC 1805 complex. From the NGC / IC Project: Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 896 NGC 0896 02 24.8 +61 54 Size 27x13 17.5": at 100x with OIII filter this is a fairly bright emission nebula, very large, about 20' diameter. Elongated roughly E-W but consists of two distinct sections (N896 and IC 1795) which merge together. The bright western portion = N896 has a high surface brightness, round, ~7' diameter and a star is off the NW edge. A weak dark lane separates N896 from faint IC 1795. The region is weakly nebulous without filter. - by Steve Gottlieb |