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Wikipedia Description: IC 5146<\/strong> (also Caldwell 19<\/strong>, Sh 2-125<\/strong>, Barnard 168<\/strong>, and the Cocoon Nebula<\/strong>) is a reflection<\/a>[2]<\/a><\/sup>\/emission<\/a>[3]<\/a><\/sup> nebula<\/a> and Caldwell object<\/a> in the constellation Cygnus<\/a>. The NGC description refers to IC 5146 as a cluster of 9.5 mag stars involved in a bright and dark nebula. The cluster is also known as Collinder 470.[4]<\/a><\/sup> It shines at magnitude +10.0[5]<\/a><\/sup>\/+9.3[3]<\/a><\/sup>\/+7.2.[6]<\/a><\/sup> Its celestial coordinates are RA 21h<\/sup> 53.5m<\/sup> , dec +47\u00b0\u00a016\u2032. It is located near the naked-eye<\/a> star Pi Cygni<\/a>, the open cluster NGC 7209<\/a> in Lacerta<\/a>, and the bright open cluster M39<\/a>.[2]<\/a>[5]<\/a><\/sup> The cluster is about 4,000\u00a0ly away, and the central star that lights it formed about 100,000 years ago;[7]<\/a><\/sup> the nebula is about 12\u00a0arcmins across, which is equivalent to a span of 15 light years<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Telescope<\/td>Takahashi TOA-130<\/td><\/tr>
Optics<\/td>Takahashi TOA-645 Flattener<\/td><\/tr>
Filter<\/td>Optolong Ultimate Dual Band<\/td><\/tr>
Camera<\/td>ASI2600MC Pro OSC<\/td><\/tr>
Integration Time<\/td>6.25 hours<\/td><\/tr>
Subframes<\/td>75 x 300 seconds<\/td><\/tr>
Date<\/td>September 29, 2025<\/td><\/tr>
Location<\/td>Carlsbad, California<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wikipedia Description: IC 5146 (also Caldwell 19, Sh 2-125, Barnard 168, and the Cocoon Nebula) is a reflection[2]\/emission[3] nebula and Caldwell object in the constellation Cygnus. The NGC description refers to IC 5146 as a cluster of 9.5 mag stars involved in a bright and dark nebula. The cluster is also known as Collinder 470.[4] […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everything","category-nebulas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}