Pencil Nebula

Scientific overview

Pencil Nebula is an H II region in the constellation Vela. It spans about 30 arcminutes of sky.

RA / Dec

9.0047h / -45.9481°

Hemisphere

Southern

Season

Spring

Object	Type	Mag	Size (′)
omi Vel Cluster	Open cluster	2.5	29.1
IC 2395	Open cluster	4.6	6
NGC 2547NGC 2547	Open cluster	4.7	7.8
NGC 3228NGC 3228	Open cluster	6	6.6
NGC 2669NGC 2669	Open cluster	6.1	8.4
NGC 2910NGC 2910	Open cluster	7.2	4.8
NGC 2645NGC 2645	Open cluster	7.32	6.6
IC 2488	Open cluster	7.4	7.2

Facts on this topic will be cited from these primary and reference sources.

OpenNGCOpenNGC (M. Verga) — NGC/IC, Messier, and Caldwell catalogue data
Openly-licensed deep-sky catalogue: object types, positions, magnitudes, sizes, morphology, and cross-identifiers.

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