Cosmic Atlas object record
NGC 2264 Christmas Tree Cluster
NGC2264, NGC 2264, Christmas Tree Cluster
- Object type
- nebula
- Constellation
- Mon
- Right ascension
- 100.24270833°
- Declination
- 9.89547222°
- Reference frame
- J2000 equatorial catalog coordinates
- Distance
- 2408.8358767754767 ly
- Distance kind
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Uncertainty
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.9
- 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