Nebula 004 / 100
Omega Nebula
NGC6618
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At a glance
- Type
- Emission nebula (H II region)
- Constellation
- Sgr
- Right ascension
- 18h 20m 47.0s
- Declination
- −16° 10′
- Apparent magnitude
- 7.0
- Angular size
- 12.6x5′
- Catalogue
- NGC6618
Located in Sagittarius.
The outline on your card
A bright bar of ionised gas curls into a swan-like checkmark, wrapped by cooler dust.
- Outline class
- Swept arc
- Axis ratio
- 0.40 : 1
- Central source
- Embedded cluster
- Surface brightness
- High
- Recorded structure
- Bright bar · Dark lane · Embedded stars
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