Cosmic Atlas object record
NGC 3372 Carina Nebula
NGC3372, NGC 3372, Carina Nebula, eta Car Nebula
NGC 3372 Carina Nebula is a Cosmic Atlas object record of type nebula from OpenNGC NGC/IC objects. Its catalog position is right ascension 161.28554167 degrees and declination -59.86669444 degrees. Its catalog distance is 8583.062571498394 light-years. Its apparent magnitude is 3.0.
- Object type
- nebula
- Constellation
- Car
- Right ascension
- 161.28554167°
- Declination
- -59.86669444°
- Reference frame
- J2000 equatorial catalog coordinates
- Distance
- 8583.062571498394 ly
- Distance kind
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Uncertainty
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.0
- 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