Cosmic Atlas object record
NGC 6523 Lagoon Nebula
NGC6523, NGC 6523, M008, Messier 008, NGC 6533, NGC6533, Lagoon Nebula
- Object type
- nebula
- Constellation
- Sgr
- Right ascension
- 270.92195833°
- Declination
- -24.38016667°
- 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
- 5.8
- 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