Cosmic Atlas object record
NGC 1976 Great Orion Nebula
NGC1976, NGC 1976, M042, Messier 042, Great Orion Nebula, Orion Nebula
- Object type
- nebula
- Constellation
- Ori
- Right ascension
- 83.81866667°
- Declination
- -5.38966667°
- Reference frame
- J2000 equatorial catalog coordinates
- Distance
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Distance kind
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Uncertainty
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.0
- Catalog source
- openngc_ngc_ic_catalog
- Catalog epoch
- J2000 catalog coordinates
- Position epoch
- J2000
- Selection caveat
- OpenNGC Pax is not treated as parallax for galaxies. Galactic classes never use Hubble-flow redshift or radial-velocity distance, and radial velocity alone is never converted to distance.
- Cosmology
- Not supplied by the source catalog