Nebula · constellation Sgr
M 8
Lagoon Nebula
NGC 6523M 8NGC 6533LBN 25
Catalogue data
- Right ascension
- 18h 03m 41.3s
- Declination
- -24° 22' 49"
- Size
- 45.0′ × 30.0′
- Position angle
- not available
- Magnitude
- 5.8 (V)
- Surface brightness
- 22.25 mag/arcsec²(derived)
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Suggested techniques
- HOO, OSC, RGB
- Data source
- OpenNGC
Nominal position for NGC 6533 is -30 arcmin in error.
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