Nebula 069 / 100
Spirograph Nebula
IC0418
SkyLabs
At a glance
- Type
- Planetary nebula
- Constellation
- Lep
- Right ascension
- 5h 27m 28.1s
- Declination
- −12° 42′
- Apparent magnitude
- 9.4
- Angular size
- 0.2x0.2′
- Catalogue
- IC0418
Located in Lepus.
The outline on your card
A bright shell with faint radial spokes is likened to a spirograph pattern.
- Outline class
- Ring
- Axis ratio
- 1.00 : 1
- Central source
- Single central star
- Surface brightness
- High
- Recorded structure
- Shell · Cavity · Spiral streaks
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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