IC 4955 - Nebula in Vulpecula

IC 4955 is a Nebula in the Vulpecula constellation. IC 4955 is situated north of the celestial equator and, as such, it is more easily visible from the northern hemisphere.

Available Resources for IC 4955 - Nebula in Vulpecula

• Photometric information of IC 4955
• Apparent size of IC 4955
• Digitized Sky Survey image of IC 4955
• Celestial coordinates and finder charts of IC 4955.
• Rise ans set times of IC 4955 from your location.

Photometric information of IC 4955

The following table lists the magnitude of IC 4955 in different bands of the electomagnetic spectrum (when available), from the B band (445nm wavelength, corresponding to the Blue color), to the V band ( 551nm wavelength, corresponding to Green/Yellow color), to the J, H, K bands (corresponding to 1220nm, 1630nm, 2190nm wavelengths respectively, which are colors not visible to the human eye).

For more information about photometry in astronomy, check the photometric system article on Wikipedia.

Apparent size of IC 4955

The following table reports IC 4955 apparent angular size. The green area displayed on top of the DSS2 image of IC 4955 is a visual representation of it.

Digitized Sky Survey image of IC 4955

The image below is a photograph of IC 4955 from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2 - see the credits section) taken in the red channel. The area of sky represented in the image is 0.5x0.5 degrees (30x30 arcmins).

Celestial coordinates and finder chart of IC 4955

Celestial coordinates for the J2000 equinox of IC 4955 are provided in the following table:

The simplified sky charts below show the position of IC 4955 in the sky. The first chart has a field of view of 60° while the second one has a field of view of 10°.

Rise ans set times of IC 4955 from your location

Today's IC 4955 - Nebula in Vulpecula rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, United Kingdom edit_location_alt are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):