Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com)  ·  Contains:  NGC 4712  ·  NGC 4725  ·  NGC 4747  ·  PK339+88.1
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LoTr 5, and several friends, Ola Skarpen SkyEyE
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LoTr 5, and several friends

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LoTr 5 is a large, faint planetary nebula in the constellation of Coma Berenices.

LoTr 5 has the highest galactic latitude of any known planetary nebula, being only 1.5 degrees away from the galactic north pole. Scientists noted this because if the distance of the nebula were found to be greater than a few hundred parsecs, then the gas from the nebula would be expanding into the galactic halo, where there is little interaction with the interstellar medium

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