NGC 5873 - Planetary Nebula in Lupus

NGC 5873 is a Planetary Nebula in the Lupus constellation. NGC 5873 is situated south of the celestial equator and, as such, it is more easily visible from the southern hemisphere.

Available Resources for NGC 5873 - Planetary Nebula in Lupus

• Photometric information of NGC 5873
• Apparent size of NGC 5873
• Digitized Sky Survey image of NGC 5873
• Celestial coordinates and finder charts of NGC 5873.
• Rise ans set times of NGC 5873 from your location.

Photometric information of NGC 5873

The following table lists the magnitude of NGC 5873 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 NGC 5873

The following table reports NGC 5873 apparent angular size. The green area displayed on top of the DSS2 image of NGC 5873 is a visual representation of it.

Digitized Sky Survey image of NGC 5873

The image below is a photograph of NGC 5873 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 NGC 5873

Celestial coordinates for the J2000 equinox of NGC 5873 are provided in the following table:

The simplified sky charts below show the position of NGC 5873 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 NGC 5873 from your location

Today's NGC 5873 - Planetary Nebula in Lupus rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, United Kingdom edit_location_alt are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):