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
- Distance from Earth
- 2381
- Image
- Retinanebel.jpg
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- 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
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -3.948
- declination component of proper motion
- 0.159
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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.
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