NGC 6884

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Planetary Nebula
NGC 6884
Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope
Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope
AladinLite
Constellation swan
Position
equinox : J2000.0
Right ascension 20h 10m 23.7s
declination + 46 ° 27 ′ 39 ″
Appearance
Apparent brightness  (visual) 10.9 likes 
Apparent brightness  (B-band) 11.9 likes 
Angular expansion 0.25 ′ × 0.25 ′  
Central star
designation HD 191916 
Physical data
Redshift −0.000119 
Radial velocity −35.6 km / s 
history
discovery EC Pickering
Ralph Copeland
Date of discovery May 8, 1883
September 20, 1884
Catalog names
 NGC  6884/6766 •  PK  82 + 7.1 •

NGC 6884 = NGC 6766 is a planetary nebula in the constellation Swan . The nebula was discovered on May 8, 1883 by the American astronomer Edward Charles Pickering . The Scottish astronomer Ralph Copeland also observed it on September 20, 1884. This led to the fact that there is a second entry in NGC for this nebula with NGC 6766 .

Web links

Commons : NGC 6884  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b SIMBAD database
  3. SEDS: NGC 6766
  4. Seligman