Key facts
- Right ascension
- 00 45 10.9
- Declination
- −73 ° 04 ′ 17 ″
- Apparent dimensions v
- 1.10 ′ × 0.70 ′
- Constellation
- Tucana
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- emission nebula
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Image
- NGC 249.png
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- catalog code
- Bruck 35
- declination
- -73.07972
- discoverer or inventor
- James Dunlop
- time of discovery or invention
- 1826-09-05
- Commons category
- NGC 249
- right ascension
- 11.37583
- epoch
- J2000.0
- apparent magnitude
- 13
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 249 is an emission nebula in the constellation Tucana. It was discovered on 5 September 1826 by the astronomer James Dunlop.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1035880” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.