Nebula 073 / 100
Retina Nebula
IC4406
SkyLabs
At a glance
- Type
- Planetary nebula
- Constellation
- Lup
- Right ascension
- 14h 22m 26.4s
- Declination
- −44° 09′
- Apparent magnitude
- 10.2
- Angular size
- 0.6x0.3′
- Catalogue
- IC4406
Located in Lupus.
The outline on your card
A rectangular dark lane splits two bright lobes, seen edge-on as a layered rectangle.
- Outline class
- Bipolar
- Axis ratio
- 0.55 : 1
- Central source
- Single central star
- Surface brightness
- Medium
- Recorded structure
- Polar lobes · Equatorial ring · Filaments · Waist band
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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