Cosmic Atlas object record
NGC 6357 the War and Peace Nebula
NGC6357, NGC 6357, the War and Peace Nebula
- Object type
- nebula
- Constellation
- Sco
- Right ascension
- 261.18154167°
- Declination
- -34.20133333°
- Reference frame
- J2000 equatorial catalog coordinates
- Distance
- 5752.317067330688 ly
- Distance kind
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Uncertainty
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Apparent magnitude
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- 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