NGC 2736 · Emission nebula (H II region) · Vela

Pencil Nebula

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Type

Emission nebula (H II region)

Constellation

Vela

Position (J2000)

9h 00m 17s · −45° 56′ 53″

Discovered

by John Frederick William Herschel in 1835

Pictures

1

Size

30′ × 7′

Distance

~820 ly

Best months

Jan–Mar

Low from the north

Catalogue data from OpenNGC by Mattia Verga, CC BY-SA 4.0. Distances, discoverers and common names from Wikidata, CC0.