NGC 3242

Also known as NGC3242

Planetary nebula in the constellation Hydra

Key facts

Right ascension: 10 24 46.1
Declination: −18 ° 38 ′ 32.6 ″
Distance: 4800±500 ly
Apparent dimensions v: 25″
Constellation: Hydra
Designations: Ghost of Jupiter, Jupiter's Ghost, Eye Nebula, Caldwell 59

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Distance from Earth: 1094
Image: NGC 3242 "Ghost of Jupiter".png

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Commons category: NGC 3242
catalog code: Gaia DR2 5668874905325843456
Commons gallery: NGC 3242
time of discovery or invention: 1785-02-07
apparent magnitude: 11.748
right ascension: 156.19222299938010
declination: -18.64230400964190
effective temperature: 68000
parallax: 33.5
radial velocity: 4.7
right ascension component of proper motion: 3
declination component of proper motion: -58

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NGC 3242 (also known as the Ghost of Jupiter, Eye Nebula or Caldwell 59) is a planetary nebula located in the constellation Hydra.

William Herschel discovered the nebula on February 7, 1785, and catalogued it as H IV.27. John Herschel observed it from the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, in the 1830s, and numbered it as h 3248, and included it in the 1864 General Catalogue as GC 2102; this became NGC 3242 in J. L. E. Dreyer's New General Catalogue of 1888.