Nebula 019 / 100
Monkey Head Nebula
NGC2174
SkyLabs
At a glance
- Type
- Emission nebula (H II region)
- Constellation
- Ori
- Right ascension
- 6h 09m 23.5s
- Declination
- +20° 40′
- Angular size
- 40x30′
- Catalogue
- NGC2174
Located in Orion.
The outline on your card
A round emission head eroded into pillar shapes by the wind of an embedded cluster.
- Outline class
- Patchy
- Axis ratio
- 0.75 : 1
- Central source
- Embedded cluster
- Surface brightness
- Medium
- Recorded structure
- Pillars · Dark lane · Embedded stars
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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