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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 6210 is referenced by 437 other articles, and connects out to list of NGC objects (6001–7000), Lagoon Nebula and epoch.
It is catalogued under topics including Hercules (constellation), NGC objects and Planetary nebulae.
Its subject is documented across 35 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Right ascension
- 16 44 29.51960
- Declination
- +23 ° 47 ′ 59.4913 ″
- Distance
- 5.4 ± 1.3 kly (1.7 ± 0.4 kpc ) ly
- Apparent dimensions v
- 40″ × 30″
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Radius
- 0.5 ly
- Designations
- PN G043.1+37.7, BD +24° 3048 , HD 151121 , IRAS 16423+2353 , NGC 6210
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Distance from Earth
- 2282
- Image
- NGC 6210 HST.tif
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- Commons category
- NGC 6210
- spectral class
- Of/[WR]
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 1299564195037054592
- Commons gallery
- NGC 6210
- discoverer or inventor
- Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve
- time of discovery or invention
- 1825-00-00
- epoch
- J2000.0
- apparent magnitude
- 9.502
- right ascension
- 251.12299832220480
- declination
- 23.79985868534130
- radial velocity
- -35.6
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -18
- declination component of proper motion
- 24
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 6210, sometimes also known as the Turtle Nebula or simply the Turtle, is a planetary nebula located approximately 5.4 ± 1.3 kly from the Sun in the constellation of Hercules. It is a bright nebula. It is positioned about 38° above the galactic plane at a vertical distance of about 3.3 kilolight-years (1 kpc), this is unusually high for a nebula. Due to its position, it has little extinction from intervening interstellar dust.
The nebula formed as a result of material being shed from a low mass progenitor star less massive than the Sun (~0.9 M☉) the complex structure and appearance of NGC 6210 has lead to proposals that the nebula was shaped by mass transfer in a triple star system.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 6210” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.