Cosmic Atlas object record

NGC 1980 Lower Sword

NGC1980, NGC 1980, Lower Sword

NGC 1980 Lower Sword is a Cosmic Atlas object record of type nebula from OpenNGC NGC/IC objects. Its catalog position is right ascension 83.85829167 degrees and declination -5.90988889 degrees. Its apparent magnitude is 2.5.

NGC 1980 Lower Sword
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Object type
nebula
Constellation
Ori
Right ascension
83.85829167°
Declination
-5.90988889°
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
2.5
Catalog source
OpenNGC NGC/IC objects
Catalog identifier
ngc_ic_deep_sky
Source record type
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

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