Image Credit: Derek Rowley
The Elephant’s Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 located in the constellation Cephus.
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The Index Catalogue contains 5,386 celestial objects, making it a substantial addition to the NGC. These objects, like those of the NGC, include a variety of galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters.
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Lists of Index Catolgue objects (IC)
To view the IC objects below from In-The-Sky website by Dominic Ford.
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| IC Objects: IC 1 thru IC 5386 (5,400 objects) |
| IC by Open Clusters (38 objects) |
| IC by Globular Clusters (8 objects) |
| IC by Galaxies (3,967 objects) |
| IC by Galaxy Clusters (4 objects) |
| IC by Planetary Nebulae (35 objects) |
| IC by Supernova Remnant (2 objects) |
| IC by Reflection Nebula (14 objects) |
| IC by HII Regions (clouds of ionized hydrogen) (32 objects) |
| IC by Emission Region (0 objects) |
| IC by Asterism (18 objects) |
| IC by Stars (571 objects) |
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Other Deep Sky Objects
| Abell – Abell Catalog | |
| ARP – Arp’s Catalog | |
| B – Barnard | |
| C – Caldwell | |
| Cr – Collinder | |
| IC – Index Catalogue | |
| M – Messier | |
| Mel – Melotte | |
| NGC – New General Catalogue | |
| SH2 – Sharpless | |
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