Cepheus is a rich region of the Milky Way with many emission nebulae. One of the largest, IC 1396, could be called the Northern Rosette because it resembles the more famous nebula in Monoceros. IC ...
Scanning the constellation Cepheus the King leads us to one of the sky’s largest emission nebulae — IC 1396. It measures a whopping 2.8° by 2.3°. But this region also contains dark nebulae and a ...