Nebula 096 / 100
Coalsack Nebula
C99
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At a glance
- Type
- Dark nebula
- Constellation
- Cru
- Right ascension
- 12h 31m 19.0s
- Declination
- −63° 45′
- Angular size
- 420x300′
- Catalogue
- C099
Located in Crux.
The outline on your card
A large naked-eye absorption patch blots out the Milky Way beside the Southern Cross.
- Outline class
- Silhouette
- Axis ratio
- 0.71 : 1
- Central source
- No central source
- Surface brightness
- Very low
- Recorded structure
- Coalsack
The card front carries no text by design: the glyph is drawn from this object's own silhouette, so the outline is the only clue you get until you scan it.
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