Nebula 006 / 100
Pelican Nebula
IC5070
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At a glance
- Type
- Emission nebula (H II region)
- Constellation
- Cyg
- Right ascension
- 20h 51m 00.7s
- Declination
- +44° 24′
- Apparent magnitude
- 8.0
- Angular size
- 60x50′
- Catalogue
- IC5070
Located in Cygnus.
The outline on your card
A companion sheet to the North America Nebula, separated from it by the same dark dust lane.
- Outline class
- Patchy
- Axis ratio
- 0.83 : 1
- Central source
- No central source
- Surface brightness
- Medium
- Recorded structure
- Dark lane · Bright rim
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