Key facts
- Right ascension
- 21 00 32.503
- Declination
- +54 ° 32 ′ 36.18 ″
- Distance
- 2,800 ly
- Apparent dimensions v
- 1.4'x1.1'
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Radius
- ≈ 0.5 ly ly
- Designations
- NGC 7008, Fetus Nebula , PK 93+5.2
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Distance from Earth
- 869
- Image
- NGC7008Hunter1.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 7008
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- declination
- 54.54430
- time of discovery or invention
- 1787-10-14
- catalog code
- WEB 18870
- parallax
- 15.7
- apparent magnitude
- 11.413
- right ascension
- 315.13620
- radial velocity
- -73.0
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7008 (PK 93+5.2), also known as the Fetus Nebula, is a planetary nebula with a diameter of approximately 1 light-year located at a distance of 2800 light years in northern Cygnus. It was discovered by William Herschel in 1787, in Slough, England. NGC 7008 (H I-192) is included in the Astronomical League's Herschel 400 observing program. NGC 7008 is that its intricate and delicate structures make it a fascinating target for both amateur and professional astronomers studying the late stages of stellar evolution and the formation of planetary nebulae.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7008” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.