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Region Cone Nebula
Region Cone Nebula — Cone Nebula — Close-Up
Dark Nebula
· MonocerosIntermediate
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Target information
- Object type
- Dark Nebula
- Constellation
- Monoceros
- Right ascension
- 6h 41m 06s
- Declination
- +9° 53′ 00″
- Magnitude
- Not recorded
- Angular size
- 10′ × 7′
- Surface brightness
- Not recorded
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Best months
- Nov-Mar
- Catalog IDs
- Not recorded
About this target
Close-up dark pillar in NGC 2264. Center J2000 06h41m06s +09d53m00s verified with NASA/Hubble and SIMBAD. 10 × 7 arcmin is a provisional photographic framing footprint, not a catalog-defined boundary.