Nebula 008 / 100
Crescent Nebula
NGC6888
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At a glance
- Type
- Emission nebula (H II region)
- Constellation
- Cyg
- Right ascension
- 20h 12m 06.5s
- Declination
- +38° 21′
- Apparent magnitude
- 7.4
- Angular size
- 20x10′
- Catalogue
- NGC6888
Located in Cygnus.
The outline on your card
A crescent-shaped shell where the fast wind of a Wolf-Rayet star rams earlier ejecta.
- Outline class
- Swept arc
- Axis ratio
- 0.50 : 1
- Central source
- Single central star
- Surface brightness
- Medium
- Recorded structure
- Shell · Filaments · Bright rim
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