Nebula 099 / 100
Snake Nebula
B72
SkyLabs
At a glance
- Type
- Dark nebula
- Right ascension
- 17h 23m 36.0s
- Declination
- −23° 37′
- Angular size
- 30x10′
- Catalogue
- B072
- Also catalogued as
- B72, BARNARD72, BARN72
The outline on your card
A thin, winding dark lane threads across a dense background of stars.
- Outline class
- Silhouette
- Axis ratio
- 0.33 : 1
- Position angle
- 45°
- Central source
- No central source
- Surface brightness
- Very low
- Recorded structure
- Snake
The card front carries no text by design: the glyph is drawn from this object's own silhouette, so the outline is the only clue you get until you scan it.
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