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Cocoon Nebula - IC 5146

by

J.Lodriguss/Novapix

Reference

a-nec51-46010

Date

2008-12-02

The Cocoon Nebula, is involved with open star cluster IC 5146, and lies at the end of an interesting dark nebulae, B168. IC 5146 is an emission nebula located about 4,000 light years away toward the constellation of Cygnus. This image was made with a Canon 300mm lens and 20Da DSLR camera and 12 x 5 minute exposures at ISO 1600.