Key facts
- Right ascension
- 12 24 30.8
- Declination
- −18 ° 47 ′ 5.6 ″
- Distance
- 3,377.2 ± 153.6 ly
- Apparent dimensions v
- 1.3' x 1.3'
- Constellation
- Corvus
- Designations
- NGC 4361, PN G294.1+43.6
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Corvus
- Distance from Earth
- 887
- Image
- NGC 4361.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 4361
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 3519614068578061568
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-02-07
- apparent magnitude
- 14.023
- right ascension
- 186.12812878804080
- declination
- -18.78487906341640
- effective temperature
- 82000
- parallax
- 0.9735
- radial velocity
- 10.0
- spectral class
- [WC]
- epoch
- J2000.0
- surface gravity
- 316000
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -4.430
- declination component of proper motion
- -10.317
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4361 (also known as the Lawn Sprinkler Nebula or Garden Sprinkler Nebula) is a planetary nebula in the Corvus constellation. It is included in the Astronomical League's Herschel 400 Observing Program.
Central star
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1110958” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.