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LDN 1235
LDN 1235 — Shark Nebula
Dark Nebula
· CepheusAdvanced
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Target information
- Object type
- Dark Nebula
- Constellation
- Cepheus
- Right ascension
- 22h 14m 55s
- Declination
- +73° 25′ 00″
- Magnitude
- Not recorded
- Angular size
- 10.2′ × 4.2′
- Surface brightness
- Not recorded
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Best months
- July, August, September, October, November
- Catalog IDs
- LDN 1235;TGU H725 P1
About this target
Dark cloud in Cepheus. The formal catalog dimensions are much smaller than the popular wide-field Shark Nebula imaging composition, so framing guidance may later benefit from a separate imaging-region record.