Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Aquila (Aql)  ·  Contains:  NGC 6781  ·  PK041-02.1
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
NGC 6781 Ghost of the Moon Nebula, rdhand
Powered byPixInsight

NGC 6781 Ghost of the Moon Nebula

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
NGC 6781 Ghost of the Moon Nebula, rdhand
Powered byPixInsight

NGC 6781 Ghost of the Moon Nebula

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

NGC 6781 is the Ghost of the Moon Nebula.  This planetary lies some 3,500 light-years away and is about 2 light-years in diameter. Like all such objects, however, the bubble continues to expand and will do so until it’s too far from the central white dwarf for the star’s radiation to ionize it. At that point, it simply will fade from view.

Comments

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

NGC 6781 Ghost of the Moon Nebula, rdhand

In these public groups

Cloudy Nights

In these collections

Planetary Nebula