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  2. Cat's Eye Nebula - Wikipedia

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    The Cat's Eye Nebula (also known as NGC 6543 and Caldwell 6) is a planetary nebula in the northern constellation of Draco, discovered by William Herschel on February 15, 1786. It was the first planetary nebula whose spectrum was investigated by the English amateur astronomer William Huggins , demonstrating that planetary nebulae were gaseous ...

  3. Sh 2-155 - Wikipedia

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    Sh 2-155, Caldwell 9, LBN 110.11+02.44 See also: Lists of nebulae Sh 2-155 (also designated Caldwell 9, Sharpless 155 or S155 , or LBN529 ) is a diffuse nebula in the constellation Cepheus , within a larger nebula complex containing emission, reflection, and dark nebulosity.

  4. Caldwell catalogue - Wikipedia

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    The Caldwell catalogue is an astronomical catalogue of 109 star clusters, ... 9.6 C39 NGC 2392: Eskimo Nebula, Clown Face Nebula [8] Planetary Nebula: 4 Gemini: 10

  5. NGC 6946 - Wikipedia

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    UGC 11597, PGC 65001, Arp 29, [1] Caldwell 12 NGC 6946 , sometimes referred to as the Fireworks Galaxy , is a face-on intermediate spiral galaxy with a small bright nucleus, whose location in the sky straddles the boundary between the northern constellations of Cepheus and Cygnus .

  6. IC 5146 - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Verona station (Erie Railroad) - Wikipedia

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    The first station at Verona was built in 1891 as one of the original stations on the Caldwell Railway, a short branch line off the New York and Greenwood Lake Railroad. When the rail line opened on August 3, 1891, the line served Verona along with Overbrook Hospital (at that point also in Verona) and the neighboring borough of Caldwell. [6]

  8. NGC 6744 - Wikipedia

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    NGC 6744 (also known as Caldwell 101 or the Pavo Galaxy [3]) is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Pavo (Peacock). Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 802 ± 3 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 38.6 ± 2.7 Mly (11.82 ± 0.83 Mpc). [1]

  9. NGC 6231 - Wikipedia

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    NGC 6231 (also known as Caldwell 76 or the Baby Scorpion Cluster [4] [5]) is an open cluster in the southern sky located half a degrees north of Zeta Scorpii.NGC 6231 is part of a swath of young, bluish stars in the constellation Scorpius known as the Scorpius OB1 association. [6]