Cosmic Atlas object record
NGC 2238 Rosette Nebula
NGC2238, NGC 2238, Rosette Nebula
- Object type
- nebula
- Constellation
- Mon
- Right ascension
- 97.66820833°
- Declination
- 5.01305556°
- Reference frame
- J2000 equatorial catalog coordinates
- Distance
- 5096.1934018241145 ly
- Distance kind
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Uncertainty
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Apparent magnitude
- 6.0
- 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