IC 4406
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Key facts
- Right ascension
- 14 22 26.278
- Declination
- −44 ° 09 ′ 04.35 ″
- Distance
- 2.0 kly (600 pc ) ly
- Constellation
- Lupus
- Notable features
- -
- Designations
- Retina Nebula
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Lupus
- Distance from Earth
- 2381
- Image
- Retinanebel.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- DeLisle Stewart
- Commons category
- IC 4406
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 6102472263541814272
- right ascension
- 215.60893490206390
- declination
- -44.15061261851280
- parallax
- 0.3858
- apparent magnitude
- 16.8113
- radial velocity
- -22.0
- epoch
- J2000.0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -3.948
- declination component of proper motion
- 0.159
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
IC 4406, sometimes known as the Retina Nebula, is a planetary nebula near the western border of the constellation Lupus, the Wolf. It has dust clouds and has the shape of a torus. Despite this, it looks somewhat rectangular because it is seen from its side as viewed from Earth, almost in the plane of its equator.
Structure
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “IC 4406” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.