About IC 2067
IC 2067 is a trash nebula. It sits in the constellation Per and shines at apparent magnitude 11.49.
A nebula: a cloud of interstellar gas and dust, thinner than the best vacuum ever made in a laboratory yet spanning light-years.
Trash nebula 14 EP
IC 2067
RA 67.7126° · Dec 35.4462° · openngc
Score breakdown
· 2 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Nebula +8
- Diffuse nebula +6
Total score 14
1 more point to reach Common.
Badges
- Nebula · +8
- Diffuse nebula · +6
Trivia
What it actually is
- What it actually is. A nebula: a cloud of interstellar gas and dust, thinner than the best vacuum ever made in a laboratory yet spanning light-years.
Find it in the sky
- How to spot it. At magnitude 11.5 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Perseus.
- Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.
- Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around November — that's when to go looking.
Its true colour
- Its true colour. Nebular colours are chemistry made visible — red for hydrogen, teal for oxygen, blue where starlight is merely scattered.
How we came to know it
- The Index Catalogue. The IC was the 1895 and 1908 supplement to the NGC — the first catalogue in history to be filled largely with objects found on photographic plates rather than by eye.
Properties
- constellation
- Per
- dso type
- Neb
- mag
- 11.49
- name
- IC 2067
- radial velocity kms
- 10
- redshift
- 0
How to see it
Look for IC 2067 in the constellation Per. At apparent magnitude 11.49, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, IC 2067 is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
Why IC 2067 is a trash nebula
IC 2067 scores 14 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 2 science badges — Nebula and Diffuse nebula — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.