IC 446 - The Coyote Cloud

This seldom imaged colorful field of our galaxy very close to the Cone and Rosette Nebula’s, so it often gets overlooked. Displayed here are examples of red emission nebula, blue reflection nebula and dark nebula.

IC 446 is was also named IC 2167 and thought to be 2 different objects discovered by Edward Bernard but eventually were proved to be the same object. This also happened to IC 447-IC 2169 which I the blue reflection nebula in the upper right corner of this image.

The curved dark nebula seen here are LDN 1607 and LBN 898. While working on this image I noticed it looked like a coyote cuddling the colorful nebula IC 446. Since it has so many names what’s another! The Coyote Cloud.

Image Processing and Calibration: Mark Hanson

Data Collection: Hanson, Mazlin, Parker, Forman 2023

Telescope1: 24" Planewave CDK f6.5 and L600 Mount, Camera SBIG 16803 Location: SWOS, El Sauce Chile

Enjoy, Mark