Cosmic Atlas object record
NGC 6543 Cat's Eye Nebula
NGC6543, NGC 6543, Cat's Eye Nebula
- Object type
- nebula
- Constellation
- Dra
- Right ascension
- 269.639125°
- Declination
- 66.63319444°
- Reference frame
- J2000 equatorial catalog coordinates
- Distance
- 5301.6316273726125 ly
- Distance kind
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Uncertainty
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Apparent magnitude
- 9.01
- 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