Tuesday, September 21, 2010

APOD 1.3

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100916.html

Right Ascension 20 : 51.0 (h:m)
Declination 30 : 40 (deg:m)
Distance 2.6 (kly)
Visual brightness 5.0 (mag)
Dimension 230 x 160 (arc min)
 The veil nebula is BIG-like six diameters of the moon huge, big enough that early astronomers thought that it was many different objects instead of one . I know what you're thinking, "Mamma mia, a-that's a lot of nebula! Tell me more", so I will. The brightness is magnitude 5, but you can't see it with the naked eye unless your viewing conditions are super awesome because all of the light is distributed along the entire (huge) object.

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