IC 4642 - Planetary Nebula in Ara

IC 4642 is a Planetary Nebula in the Ara constellation. IC 4642 is situated south of the celestial equator and, as such, it is more easily visible from the southern hemisphere.

Available Resources for IC 4642 - Planetary Nebula in Ara

• Photometric information of IC 4642
• Apparent size of IC 4642
• Digitized Sky Survey image of IC 4642
• Celestial coordinates and finder charts of IC 4642.
• Rise ans set times of IC 4642 from your location.

Photometric information of IC 4642

The following table lists the magnitude of IC 4642 in different bands of the electomagnetic spectrum (when available), from the B band (445nm wavelength, corresponding to the Blue color), to the V band ( 551nm wavelength, corresponding to Green/Yellow color), to the J, H, K bands (corresponding to 1220nm, 1630nm, 2190nm wavelengths respectively, which are colors not visible to the human eye).

For more information about photometry in astronomy, check the photometric system article on Wikipedia.

Apparent size of IC 4642

The following table reports IC 4642 apparent angular size. The green area displayed on top of the DSS2 image of IC 4642 is a visual representation of it.

Digitized Sky Survey image of IC 4642

The image below is a photograph of IC 4642 from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2 - see the credits section) taken in the red channel. The area of sky represented in the image is 0.5x0.5 degrees (30x30 arcmins).

Celestial coordinates and finder chart of IC 4642

Celestial coordinates for the J2000 equinox of IC 4642 are provided in the following table:

The simplified sky charts below show the position of IC 4642 in the sky. The first chart has a field of view of 60° while the second one has a field of view of 10°.

Rise ans set times of IC 4642 from your location

IC 4642 - Planetary Nebula in Ara is currently not visible from Greenwich, United Kingdom edit_location_alt